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    Fall 2011- August drive MBA SEMESTER 1 MB0040 – STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT- 4 Credits (Book ID: B1129) Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions 1. (a) ‘Statistics is the backbone of decision-making’. Comment. [ 5 marks] (b) Give plural meaning of the word Statistics? [ 5 marks] 2. a. In a bivariate data on ‘x’ and ‘y’‚ variance of ‘x’ = 49‚ variance of ‘y’ = 9 and covariance (x‚y) = -17.5. Find coefficient of correlation between ‘x’ and

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    A Critique of Jill Dubisch’s You Are What You Eat Before reading Jill Dubisch’s article You Are What You Eat‚ I had many presumptions regarding how Dubisch would connect the health food movement to Geertz and his definition of religion. When thinking about the supposed “premise” of religion‚ I had always believed the vague and obscure definition that religion is a set of beliefs and practices that center around a divine force. Because of my ignorance regarding religion‚ my views were incredulous

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    Drug War Statistics To Sum this up I’ve gathered some information not well information to show the damage does to our society the economic failure from of America’s “War on Drugs”: There is a drug arrest every 19 seconds in the U.S. Of the more than 1.6 million drug arrests in 2009‚ 82 percent were for possession alone. The U.S. government estimates that more than 118 million Americans above the age of 12 (47 percent of the population) admit to using illegal drugs. One out of every

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    means for one to be more objective when collecting data or making inferences. These measures distinguish the center or middle of a set of values and best characterize the distribution. The central tendency of a distribution is an estimate of the "center" of a distribution of values. There are three major types of estimates of central tendency: Mean‚ Median‚ and Mode. The mean or average is the most common used method of describing central tendency and can be used for all data. The Median is the

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    STATISTICS PROJECT The balance is a interval‚ numerical and continuous variable. The ATM is a ratio‚ numerical‚ discrete variable. Services is a ratio‚ numerical‚ discrete variable. Debit‚ interest and city are a categorical‚ nominal variable. As the graph‚ shows below‚ the balance of the typical customer‚ otherwise known as the mean is equal to 1499.87. 12 customers have more than $2‚000 in their account. This number is relatively high because the account balances tend to cluster

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    Tests and Quizzes for Statistics Quiz #1 Question 1 of 20 0.0/ 1.0 Points If a variable has possible values –2‚ 6‚ and 17‚ then this variable is  A.a discrete variable  B.a continuous variable  C.neither a continuous nor a discrete variable  D.both a continuous and a discrete variable Answer Key: A Question 2 of 20 1.0/ 1.0 Points Which of the following statistics is not a measure of central location?  A.Median  B.Mode  C.Interquartile range  D.Mean Answer Key: C Question

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    | Merola Resort Properties | | | Group 2Team 2 | Statistic Assignment - Lecturer: Sienney Liu | | Team members: Nguyen Ngoc Bao Chau s3408641Dinh Bach Nga s3410233Huynh Minh Khoa s3409594 | QUESTION 1: Use Excel to create a histogram which displays the frequencies of different satisfaction levels collected from the guests in each of the two hotels. Be sure to include the two Frequency Distribution tables with your two histograms. Bin | Frequency |

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    When you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire‚ take down this book‚ And slowly read‚ and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once‚ and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace‚ And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you‚ And loved the sorrows of your changing face. And bending down beside the glowing bars‚ Murmur‚ a little sadly‚ how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead‚ And hid

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    Drawing on what you have learned about City Road‚ outline some of the inequalities on a street that you Know Using what I have learned in my study materials‚ I will compare Green Lanes to City Road‚ Cardiff for either their similarities or differences relating to Inequalities. Green Lanes is rich in the multicultural area and is home to many diverse communities and retail businesses similar to City Road. One of the visible inequality on Green Lanes is the traffic infrastructure

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    When You Do Work You Give it Energy! Holly Beech Professor Evans SCI 110 Holly Beech Professor Evans SCI 110 31 January 2010 Whenever You Do Work You Give It Energy How would one know that working creates energy? Well the definition of energy might give a clue. “Energy can be defined as the ability to do work” (Tillery‚ Enger‚ and Ross‚ 2008‚ p. 59). If one were to think about this statement unscientifically‚ it might evoke the picture of some one being to tired‚ having no energy‚

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