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    What‚ if anything‚ can be learnt about the ‘crime problem’ from studying Home Office criminal statistics? Previous to April 2012 the Home office was the most definitive source of being accountable for recording official statistics‚ since then the Office for National Statistics took responsibility for such data. This essay will cover the current trends portrayed by the Home Office criminal statistics‚ and the levels of insight we obtain form understanding them.Initially to learn and get an understanding

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    and the reasonableness of one expectation over another. These expectations are usually based on some facts about past events or what is known as statistics. Collier describes statistics to be the science of the classification and manipulation of data in order to draw inferences. Inferences here can be read to mean expectations‚ leading to the conclusion that the two go hand in hand in accomplishing what mankind has tried to accomplish since the beginning of time – predicting the future. It is

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    first scientists to test the effectiveness of a high-tech handheld device designed to instantly identify DNA of an animal species (PLOS Biology‚ Dec. 2005.) They used the lusks with brightly colored shells. The scientists discovered that the error rate of the device is less than 5 percent. Set up the null and alternative hypothesis if you want to support your findings. Ho: p = .05 Ha: p<.05 8.14 (3 points) Susceptibility to hypnosis. The Computer-Assisted Hypnosis Scale (CAHS) is designed to

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    Statistics Test Pearson’s correlation test Correlation is a technique for investigating the relationship between two quantitative‚ continuous variables‚ for example‚ age and blood pressure. Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) is a measure of the strength of the association between the two variables. The nearer the scatter of points is to a straight line‚ the higher the strength of association between the variables. Also‚ it does not matter what measurement units are used (URL1)

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    Juvenile Statistics Paper

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    Crimes are committed by juvenile offenders every day and to gain a better understanding as to why they commit such crimes the trends have to be evaluated. The following statistics are findings made in 2008. These findings will give a clear understanding of the overall decrease in juvenile arrests made‚ touch base on the increase in drug offenses and simple assaults‚ provide implications for juvenile females and members of ethnic and racial minorities‚ examine the increase in arrests of juvenile females

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    stock 2 is a litter flatter than the two above. Justify with descriptive statistics and the histogram tools: Firstly use descriptive statistics to summarise the key features of stock1‚ stock2‚ and stock3 respectively. All the available output options were chosen and labels in the first row were chose as in the Appendix figure 4.1 descriptive statistics. The output are as follows: Figure 1.1 descriptive Statistics for Stock 1‚ 2‚ and 3 Stock 1 Stock 2 Stock 3 Mean

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    kilometers. A sample 49 tires revealed that the mean number of kilometers is 45‚000 kilometers with a standard deviation of 15‚000 kilometers. What is the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis? ii) It is claimed that in a bushel of peaches less than ten percent are defective. A sample of 400 peaches is examined and 50 are found to be defective. What is the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis? Question 2 CCTV and AATV provided a television channel targeted to individuals waiting

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    Juvenile Crime Statistics

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    Juvenile Crime Statistics William Scott Bennett CJA/374 September 24‚ 2012 LeDetra C. Jones Juvenile Arrests 2008 Data is collected by law enforcement agencies within the United States and submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigations for tracking purposes. These numbers are used by analysts at the FBI to indicate trends in crime and to possibly develop alternative policing methods. A statistician can manipulate numbers to show what they feel is relevant‚ but aside from

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    Many schools have partnerships with companies that allow students to explore certain occupations through internships‚ and shadowing opportunities to discover whether they are interested in pursuing that type of employment. In this case Apple would be the occupation of choice. Apple says there is a customer service job that has opened up. I have the skills necessary for an apprenticeship at Apple. I think I can take this job because I have technology knowledge‚ I have helped people in the past‚ and

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    Statistics and Soft Drink

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    coefficient of determination (R-square)‚ F-test and t-test. Which equation is a good (better) fit? Which equation shows the stronger overall significance to predict the future demand? Which equation will you choose for a better demand estimation? Explain your answer in the language of statistics. (20%) 3. Given your choice of equation in question 2‚ please interpret each coefficient of independent variable in the soft drink demand estimated equation. (10%) 4. Given your choice of equation in

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