Syllabus for Statistics Course No. 21090024 Period：54 Credit：3 Course Nature：Compulsive Assessment: Usually 10%‚ Group Work 20%‚ Final Exam70% Textbook： Statistics(3rd Edition)， Junping Jia，Xiaoqun He，Yongjin Jin，China Renmin University Press，2007 Reference： Statistics for Business and Economics(7th Edition) Anderson‚ D.R.‚ & Sweeney‚ D.J. & Williams‚ T.A. 1.Introduction Statistics is a core curriculum for students in finance and economics major‚ which is a science method that starts with data
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MM207 Statistics Unit IV Mid Term Project 1. In the following situation identify the implied population. A recent report on the weekly news presented the findings of a study on the effectiveness of Onglyza‚ along with diet and exercise‚ for treating diabetes. According to Bennett (2009)‚ a population is defined as “the complete set of people or things being studied” in a statistical study. Given that the information is in relation to finding the success of a drug used to care for
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Case Problem 1: National Health Care Association(Descriptive Statistics) The National Health Care Association is concerned about the shortage of nurses the health care profession is projecting for the future. To learn the current degree of job satisfaction among nurses‚ the association has sponsored a study of hospital nurses throughout the country. As part of this study‚ a sample of 50 nurses was asked to indicate their degree of satisfaction in their work‚ their pay and their opportunities for
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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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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 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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BIO 2003 SUMMATIVE ASSIGNMENT 2 Introduction: The report analyses the result of a study on workers from brick and tile industries conducted by the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL). HSL put down few criteria’s to the workers which being that neither of the workers from the tiles and brick industries should have worked in both the industries and that they did not smoke. The criteria’s put across was an assurance to attain reliable results. The essence of the study lies in detecting any difference
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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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QMT2033 BUSINESS STATISTICS Assignment for mid -term break 1. Most of the information technology developers claim that wireless connection would give speed of at least 11 Mbps compared to wired connection. A sample of 105 computers using wireless connection shows it gives a mean of 11.7 Mbps and a standard deviation of 2.3 Mbps. a) Do you think that the wireless usage should be implemented? Test at 7% significance level). b) Repeat the test by using p-value approach. 2. A jack is usually used
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