Hussam Hasan Karim University of Basrah College of Arts/ Department of English Contrastive analysis as Applied Linguistics Contrastive analysis is a branch of linguistics. It is a linguistic enterprise aimed at producing inverted (i.e. contrastive‚ not comparative) two-valued typologies (a CA is always concerned with a pair of languages)‚ and founded on the assumption that languages can be compared (Carl James‚1983( . contrastive analysis includes all fields of linguistics such as phonology
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Examine the reasons why some sociologists choose to use official statistics when conducting research. Firstly‚ official statistics are a source of secondary quantitative data which are gathered by the government or other official bodies. Many reasons for their use by sociologists when conducting research stems from the fact that they are a form of secondary data; meaning that they are not collected by the sociologist themselves. This makes them high in practicality‚ representativeness and reliability
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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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Due 10/09/2010 Question 2: using research into street violence to illustrate your argument‚ identify dilemmas associated with relying on police statistics as a measure of crime. When the annual crime statistics are reported‚ they can generate many emotions within society. These feelings can be conflicting depending on whether the crime statistics show an increase or decrease in crime fields. When crime rates are down the community feels relieved‚ protected and safe‚ restoring confidence in the
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statistics Berlin Brandenburg Die kleine Berlin–Statistik 2011 Editor: Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg English edition Information management Photograph credits Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg Behlertstraße 3a 14467 Potsdam Telephone: +49 331 8173-1777 Telefax: + 49 30 9028-4091 E-Mail: info@statistik-bbb.de www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de »The Berlin Bear« (heraldic beast). The photo was created with the kind support of Mrs. Kutzner (District Office Berlin-Mitte)
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Statistics in Business Katherine Wolf QNT/275 April 3‚ 2015 Barry Adkins Statistics in Business Statistics is all about collecting numerical data‚ organizing it‚ and interpreting the data to form hypothesis. While interpreting the data we are able to draw all kinds of conclusions from weather forecasts to how much money a company is projected to make over the next year. There are different types of statistics that can be used for different outcomes. You have to first identify the
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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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CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE NATIONAL STATISTICAL ORGANISATION MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION GOVERNMENT OF INDIA www.mospi.gov.in CSO‚ SARDAR PATEL BHAVAN‚ SANSAD MARG‚ NEW DELHI - 110 001 Energy Statistics 2013 ENERGY STATISTICS 2013 (Twentieth Issue) CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NEW DELHI CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE Energy Statistics 2013 FOREWORD Energy
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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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