Subject Areas Use of Statistics 1. World of Sports • Enter results from the different tournaments around the world • Research projects to improve the quality of the game and keep the fans interested • provide analysis on players and team strategy‚ as well as tackle larger research projects • statistical t tools include basic regression analysis‚ logistic regression‚ Monte Carlo simulation‚ classification‚ and hierarchical regression 2. Education • Statistics provides simple yet instant information
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Introduction Statistics is a set of tools used to organize and analyze data. Data must either be numeric in origin or transformed by researchers into numbers. For instance‚ statistics could be used to analyze percentage scores English students receive on a grammar test: the percentage scores ranging from 0 to 100 are already in numeric form. Statistics could also be used to analyze grades on an essay by assigning numeric values to the letter grades‚ e.g.‚ A=4‚ B=3‚ C=2‚ D=1‚ and F=0. Employing
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Statistics Real Life Example #2Article: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/21/us-ebola-airports.htmlMy article is covering the recent “Ebola Outbreak”. In this‚ people are direly afraid of catching the Ebola virus. They are even going as far as screening people in airports who come from‚ and travel to‚ places where Ebola is much more spread amongst the population (mostly in Africa‚ for now). The article quotes: “Some members of Congress have urged President Barack Obama to ban all travel
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what the Grand Inquisitor said about how people seek to escape freedom. Wanting to live and worship in a community strengthens the idea of living within those boundaries which will automatically restrict freedom. The Grand Inquisitor says that people find freedom" dreadful"‚ he says "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet‚ and say to us: Make us your slaves‚ but feed us."(262) Man is not hungry only for bread‚ he is capable of tireless searching for someone to worship. The Grand Inquisitor
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Application of a Grand Theory Mallory Rahar Maryville September 4‚ 2014 Application of a Grand Theory Nurses use theories in every day practice to help answer questions and to build a strong foundation from. In this paper‚ two theories will be compared and contrasted. The first article applied Virginia Henderson’s grand theory of Principles and Practice of Nursing‚ also known as the activities of living theory (Nicely & DeLario‚ 2011). She believed‚ “the best health care is patient-focused;
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Running head: Misuses Statistics 1 Misuses Statistics Regena Kelley MAT126: Survey of Mathematical Methods Instructor: Zhimin Huang January 21‚ 2013 Misuses Statistics 2 Misuses Statistics Statistics and survey are misused and not accurate because of many factors. The types of these statistics are found suspect samples‚ asking Biased questions and misleading graphs. There are businesses that use these statistics with questions to convice people to accept
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Lecture Notes: Statistics A note on basic statistics Statistics is the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities. So there are two parts1. Collection of Data 2. Analysis of Data- understanding what the data says. Steps in Statistics To carry out any statistical operation‚ the following steps need to be followed‚ in the given order: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Sampling Estimation Hypothesis Generation Testing Regression Prediction Collection of Data: Sampling
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Statistics in Business QNT/275 January 12‚ 2015 Kim Gravelle Statistics in Business Statistics are simply a way of gathering information from data. Learning from data is the essential use of statistics. The extraction of answers from data provides the foot print for further investigation and research. There are several different types and levels of statistics‚ they are nominal‚ ordinal‚ interval‚ and ratio ("Data Levels of Measurement"‚ 2014). The first level being nominal‚ allows for the use
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BlackBerry aims to go private in $4.7bn deal with Fairfax Financial group Troubled smartphone maker‚ whose shares have plummeted in recent times‚ ready to be sold to Canadian buyer for $9 a share Heidi Moore in New York‚ The Guardian theguardian.com‚ Monday 23 September 2013 19.36 BST BlackBerry‚ the once-dominant maker of smartphones that fell on hard times in recent years‚ has found a suitor willing to pay $4.7bn for the troubled company. Fairfax Financial‚ a Canadian firm that already owns
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of top 100 banks in the United States according to the total assets. Leading the list was Bank of America‚ followed by JP Morgan Chase and Citibank. Following is an Excel Analysis of total assets ($ billions) of these banks using the descriptive statistics feature. Study the output and describe what you can learn about the assets of these top 100 banks from the output. Top 100 Banks in the U.S Mean Standard Error Median Mode Standard Deviation Sample Variance Kurtosis Skewness Range Minimum
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