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    |T F |1. |If on average y increases as x increases‚ the correlation coefficient is positive. | |T F |2. |Pearson’s correlation coefficient‚ r‚ does not depend on the units of measurement of the two variables. | |T F |3. |The value of Pearson’s r is always between 0 and 1. | |T F |4. |If r is close to 1‚ then the points lie close to a straight line with a positive

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    SPSS Statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis. It is now officially named "IBM SPSS Statistics". Companion products in the same family are used for survey authoring and deployment (IBM SPSS Data Collection)‚ data mining (IBM SPSS Modeler)‚ text analytics‚ and collaboration and deployment (batch and automated scoring services). Contents [hide] 1 Statistics program 2 Versions 2.1 Ownership history 3 Add-ons 4 Release history 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External

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    Descripitive Statistics Paper Descriptive Statistics Paper Laura L. Mason‚ Becky Matlock‚ and Nichole Noble RES/341 June 15‚ 2011 David Morrisson Descriptive Statistics Paper Major League Baseball is known as America’s favorite pastime‚ and MLB teams spend an extensive amount of money in the excess of a billion dollars with the ultimate goal to win the World Series. This learning team’s focus throughout this descriptive statistics paper is the MLB players’ performances‚ salaries‚ salary

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    In today’s world‚ we are faced with situations everyday where Statistics can be applied. In general‚ Statistics is the science of collecting‚ organizing‚ and analyzing numerical data. The techniques involved in Statistics are important for the work of many professions‚ thus the proper preparation and theoretical background of Statistics is valuable for many successful career paths. Marketing campaigns‚ the realm of gambling‚ professional sports‚ the world of business and economics‚ the political

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    Data Key Vocabulary: Statistics data‚ datum variation individual respondent subject participant experimental unit observation variable categorical quantitative Calculator Skills: enter data in a list change a datum delete a datum name a new list clear a list delete a list recreate a list copy a list 1. Name three things you learned about Statistics in Chapter 1. 2. The authors claim that this book is very different from a typical mathematics textbook. Would you agree or disagree‚

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    Administration- MBA Semester 1 MB0040 - Statistics for Management Q1. A Explain the characteristics of statistics? B. What are the components of statistics? Give a brief description of each of its component’s? Answer: (A) Some of its important characteristics are given below: * Statistics are aggregates of facts. * Statistics are numerically expressed. * Statistics are affected to a marked extent by multiplicity of causes. * Statistics are enumerated or estimated according to

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    samples have the same variance. (1) Note that three of the most important distributions (namely the normal distribution‚ the t distribution‚ and the chi-square distribution) may be seen as special cases of the F distribution: (3) Example: We want to measure the monthly sales volume from Microsoft and Apple. We collect data for a year ( 12 months). We calculate the variance for both and define the “degrees of freedom’ (n-1= 11) and then we can build the F-distribution. F statistic (): Defined

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    1) Suppose that an independent laboratory has tested trash bags and has found that no 30-gallon bags that are currently on the market have a mean breaking strength of 50 pounds or more. On the basis of these results‚ the producer of the new‚ improved trash bag feels sure that its 30-gallon bag will be the strongest such bag on the market if the new trash bag’s mean breaking strength can be shown to be at least 50 pounds. The mean of the sample of 40 trash bag breaking strengths in Table 1.9 is x=50

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    Lama 1 Sandip Lama Instructor Kennedy Anthropology 3 12 September 2014 You are what you speak In the article “Whorf Revisited: You are what you speak‚” the writer Guy Deutscher talks about Sapir - Whorf’s famous controversial hypothesis. The ethnography is written in style of realist‚ because the theories are looked at objectively and scientifically. The article is also written in critical style‚ since list of measurements‚ evidences are given‚ and it is written analytically. The range of the

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    there are 23 homes in the Quail Creek area and 9 of them have a security system. Four homes are selected at random: | (a) | What is the probability all four of the selected homes have a security system? (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.) |   Probability |   | (b) | What is the probability none of the four selected homes have a security system? (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.) |   Probability |   | (c) | What is the probability at least one of the selected homes has

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