Global Distribution and Transportation 501 Semester 1 – 2014 Assessment 2 Group Essay Due date: Week 13 (May 27‚ 6.00 p.m.) Submission: Online through Turnitin Marks: 30 marks Objectives This assessment item relates to the course learning outcomes 1 to 4 as stated in the unit outline. Students are to form their own groups and select their own group members. There will be a maximum of 5 members in a group. Guidelines: You must use at least 15 peer-reviewed
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Dana Wheeler‚ Senior Vice President of marketing for the Fashion Channel is reviewing a new marketing segmentation and positioning strategy. The Fashion Channel Company needs to strengthen its competitive position and is willing to spend an estimated $60 Million on advertising‚ promotion‚ and public relations in 2007. TFC’s main focus has been solely on fashion which is broadcast all hours of the day 7 days a week. This channel reaches close to 80 million viewers in US households with their main
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Sampling distribution The sampling distribution is the distribution of the values of a sample statistic computed for each possible sample that could be drawn from the target population under a specified sampling plan. Because many different samples could be drawn from a population of elements‚ the sample statistics derived from any one sample will likely not equal the population parameters. As a result‚ the sampling distribution supplies an approximation of the true value’s population parameters
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over the Internet is becoming increasingly common. How do you think Zara should adjust its distribution system to deal with this growing phenomenon? An important factor in the Zara brand success story is consistency in who’s running the show. Approximately 92 percent of all six-hundred-fifty-something locations are owned entirely by Zara‚ allowing for greater control over the brand’s execution strategy. Also‚ the ability to produce over half of its own product enables Zara to churn out new clothing
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Normal Distribution It is important because of Central Limit Theorem (CTL)‚ the CTL said that Sum up a lot of i.i.d random variables the shape of the distribution will looks like Normal. Normal P.D.F Now we want to find c This integral has been proved that it cannot have close form solution. However‚ someone gives an idea that looks stupid but actually very brilliant by multiply two of them. reminds the function of circle which we can replace them to polar coordinate Thus Mean
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FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION WHAT IT IS Frequency distributions summarize and compress data by grouping it into classes and recording how many data points fall into each class. That is‚ they show how many observations on a given variable have a particular attribute. For example‚ a survey is taken of 50 people’s favorite color. The frequency distribution might indicate 15 people selected green‚ 12 blue‚ 6 red‚ 7 yellow‚ and 10 purple. Converting these raw numbers into percentages would then provide an
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standard deviation = square root of variance = sqrt(846) = 29.086 4. If we have the following data 34‚ 38‚ 22‚ 21‚ 29‚ 37‚ 40‚ 41‚ 22‚ 20‚ 49‚ 47‚ 20‚ 31‚ 34‚ 66 Draw a stem and leaf. Discuss the shape of the distribution. Solution: 2 3 4 5 6 | | | | | 219200 48714 0197 6 This distribution is right skewed (positively skewed) because the “tail” extends to the right. 5. What type of relationship is shown by this scatter plot? 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 0 5 10 15 20 Solution: Weak positive linear
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benefits totaling upwards of nine figures. If a company thrives‚ every one of its employees should be rewarded accordingly. Equal growth of income can be achieved by re-evaluation of monetary distribution within corporations to increase raises for workers and eliminate executive bonuses. The distribution of wealth within a corporation is about as fair as 300 against one in a game of dodge ball. In 2007‚ the Economic Policy Institute took a survey to determine that eighty percent of the working
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Travel Distribution: the Travel Agent’s Perspective By Dr Marion Bennett and Dr Dimitrios Buhalis‚ Centre for eTourism Research (CeTR)‚ School of Management‚ University of Surrey‚ Guildford Jan 2003 Summary The Internet has revolutionised the tourism industry and has generated a number of challenges and opportunities for all players. For travel agents‚ in particular‚ the Internet is changing the industry structure and consumer behaviour. Significantly‚ technology forms part of the strategy to enable
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Mr. Shroff is a talented and well-experienced human resources manager of Britestar Company. He undertakes his role of HR manager by being an administrative expert and a change agent. He has always been an inspiration for his subordinates and the employees whose performance is measured and appraised by him. It is because of Mr. Shroff’s 15 years of experience of working in HR departments helped him to get acquainted with various Performance Appraisal methods for evaluating the performance of his employees
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