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    Statistic and Probablilty

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    Module 1 Suppose you hear an "old-timer" say‚ "Why‚ in my day‚ kids were much more respectful and didn’t cause as much trouble as they do nowadays!" Formulate a hypothesis related to this statement that you could test. How would you test it? The old-timer are the older person in their 70s or 80s at this time. I would compare the age when this old timer is raising his own children . what actually age he may be‚ let say‚ 25 years old if he was born in 1940 by the year 1965 to determine respectfulness

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    Statistic Assigment

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    Contents 1.0 Chapter 1-Introduction‚ problem statement and objectives 2 2.0 Chapter 2- Literature Review 4 3.0 Chapter 3-Methodology 7 4.0 Chapter 4- Result 8 5.0 Conclusion 9 6.0 References 10 7.0 Articles 11 8.0 Appendix 11 * Chapter 1-Introduction‚ problem statement and objectives This assignment appertains to analyzing the relationship between one dependent variable with various independent variables. This assignment will be divided into 5 chapters in which

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    Week 4 Exercises Chapter 5 – Section 1. Question 5 To perform a certain type of blood analysis‚ lab technicians must perform two procedures. The first procedure requires either one or two separate steps‚ and the second procedure requires either one‚ two‚ or three steps. a. List the experimental outcomes associated with performing the blood analysis. Answer: There are two procedures that a lab technician must perform. The first procedure requires either one or two separate steps‚ which could be named

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    2/8 (Friday) Standard Deviation cont’d Example: Amount of money earned by new immigrants Sample: 12‚ 15‚ 16‚ 20‚ 25‚ 36‚ 40 Step 1: Find the mean * x̄=164/7 * mean is 23.4 Step 2: Find how much each observation deviates from the mean * 12 - 23.4 = -11.4 * 15 – 23.4 = -8.4 * 16 – 23.4 = -7.4 * 20 – 23.4 = -3.4 * 25 – 23.4 = 1.6 * 36 – 23.4 = 12.6 * 40 – 23.4 = 16.6 * Note: all observations below mean will be negative‚ all above will be positive Step

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    “Isipin mo na lang best friend mo ko.” This is the text message I received from her which started it all. These words gave me the privilege to call Mikee “bes” and have her as my one and true best friend. Best friends are the best when it comes to being an inspiration for improving oneself for the better. This is what Mikee made me realize. Although we’ve just been best friends for quite a short time‚ she already influenced me with her unique attitudes and characteristics. She’s one of the main

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    “The best Thanksgiving” Thanksgiving is my second all time favorite time of the year. I love waking up in the morning to the loud‚ obnoxious sound of leaves crunching‚ and cars driving. My day starts out by walking down thehnb cozy steps to smell my mom cooking lazy snacks that take forever to cook for the day. For the perfect thanksgiving day of course I have to go outside and enjoy a chilly beautiful fall day‚ but before I can go inside my mom usually catches me and says “Bailey you are going

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    The prevalence of terror in the movies Psycho (1960)‚ Eyes Without a Face (1960) and Village of The Damned (1995) is astonishing and quite scary. The methods used to achieve heightened tension and terror in these films is remarkable and includes various camera angles and tricks and audio to foreshadow. The primary reason these films are so terrifying to the viewer is that they can actually occur and are not about some fantasy or supernatural world. The terror in these films plays on the emotional

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    Synopsis of How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff When most people hear or read a statistic‚ they quickly have to decide if the numbers listed are valid or invalid. It is usually assumed that the author of the statistic is knowledgeable in the field to which the statistic pertains. However‚ on many occasions‚ the statistic is false‚ due to the author’s wording. Darrell Huff’s novel How to Lie with Statistics is a manual that can help individuals catch these lies. The novel allows readers to

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    statistics problems

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    18. Based on a simple random sample of one hundred an analyst estimates the average hourly wage earned by workers in a city to be $30 and computes the margin of error to be $5. Can we conclude from this that most workers there earn between $25 and $35 per hour? Is the right interpretation for the margin of error? 23. Polls showed the two main candidates in the 2004 presidential election were nearly tied on the day before the election. To predict the winner a newspaper would like to have a poll

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    Chapter 3 Fluid Statics: Definitions Statics: ∑F = 0. In statics we have only pressure as surface force and weight as body force. Thus‚ when fluids are still‚ the pressure is balanced by the fluid weight. No relative motion between adjacent fluid layers. Shear stress is zero Only _______ can be acting on fluid surfaces Gravity force acts on the fluid (____ force) Applications: Pressure variation within a reservoir Forces on submerged surfaces Buoyant forces 9/4/2013 1 Pressure Pressure is defined

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