Associate Level Material Comparative Data Resource: Ch. 14 of Health Care Finance Complete the following table by writing responses to the questions. Cite the sources in the text and list them at the bottom of the table. What criterion must be met for true comparability? | True comparability needs to meet three criteria: consistency‚ verification and unit measurement. (Baker & Baker‚ 2012) | What elements of consistency should be considered? Provide an example. | The elements
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into the Workers’ Compensation (WC) actuarial model workbook. Payroll data for the WC model should contain “only the actual hours worked” for specific Rate Schedule Codes (RSC) groups‚ including executives. The WC payroll data should exclude all paid leave types. A comparison of work hours from the NPHRS mainframe report to the summary in EDW reveals very small differences. We hope to align the NPHRS and EDW work hour data. Also‚ we (Technical Analysis‚ Accounting and Finance) need to understand
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Be Data Literate – Know What to Know by Peter F. Drucker Executives have become computer literate. The younger ones‚ especially‚ know more about the way the computer works than they know about the mechanics of the automobile or the telephone. But not many executives are information-literate. They know how to get data. But most still have to learn how to use data. Few executives yet know how to ask: What information do I need to do my job? When do I need it? In what
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Data Collection QNT/351 July 10‚ 2014 There are many times when companies have to collect data to come to a conclusion about an issue. The data may be collected from their employers‚ their competition or their consumers. BIMS saw that there had been an average turnover that was larger then what the company had seen in the past. Human Resources decided that they would conduct a survey to see what had changed in the company from the employee’s point of view. They attached
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Turnage‚ Bonebright‚ Buhman‚ Flowers (1996) showed that untrained participants can listen to shapes. That is‚ they used data sonification – musical representation of two dimensional space‚ with pitch as the vertical dimension and time as the horizontal dimension – to present participants the visual and auditory representation of waveforms. In two conditions‚ they showed the participants could match one visual presentation to one of two auditory representations‚ or match one auditory presentation
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of variables Qualitative Quantitative • Reliability and Validity • Hypothesis Testing • Type I and Type II Errors • Significance Level • SPSS • Data Analysis Data Analysis Using SPSS Dr. Nelson Michael J. 2 Variable • A characteristic of an individual or object that can be measured • Types: Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis Using SPSS Dr. Nelson Michael J. 3 Types of Variables • Qualitative variables: Variables which differ in kind rather than degree • Measured
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1. Data Processing- is any process that a computer program does to enter data and‚ summarize‚ analyze or otherwise convert data into usable information. The process may be automated and run on a computer. It involves recording‚ analyzing‚ sorting‚ summarizing‚ calculating‚ disseminating and storing data. Because data are most useful when well-presented and actually informative‚ data-processing systems are often referred to as information systems. Nevertheless‚ the terms are roughly synonymous‚ performing
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Data Collection: Data collection is the heart of any research. No study is complete without the data collection. This research also includes data collection and was done differently for different type of data. TYPES OF DATA Primary Data: For the purpose of collecting maximum primary data‚ a structured questionnaire was used wherein questions pertaining to the satisfaction level of the customer about pantaloons product(apparel)‚ the quality‚ color‚ variety of products‚ the availability of different
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WEEK-3 Data Abstraction Destructors • Destructors are functions without any type • The name of a destructor is the character ’~’ followed by class name – For example: ~clockType(); • A class can have only one destructor – The destructor has no parameters • Destructor automatically executes when the class object goes out of scope C++ Programming: Program Design Including Data Structures‚ Sixth Edition 2 Data Abstract‚ Classes‚ and Abstract Data Types • Abstraction – i
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Chapter 3 Data Description 3-1 Measures of Central Tendency ( page 3-3) Measures found using data values from the entire population are called: parameter Measures found using data values from samples are called: statistic A parameter is a characteristic or measure obtained using data values from a specific population. A statistic is a characteristic or measure obtained using data values from a specific sample. The Measures of Central Tendency are: • The Mean • The
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