companies. Because each return is weighted by the total market value of each companys stock‚ the index emphasizes larger companies. The file ex01 57.txt contains the real (that is‚ adjusted for the changing buying power of the dollar) returns on the S&P 500 for the years from 1971 to 2003. (a) Make a histogram of the real returns. Describe the shape of the distribution. Answer) The Histogram for the real Returns‚ of Standard and Poor’s stock Index can be plotted using the following “R” commands:
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universally. The scale is chosen depending on the information that the data is intending to represent. The four scales of measurement of data are nominal‚ ordinal‚ interval‚ and ratio. Each plays a different‚ yet very important role in the world of statistic a) Nominal scale Is the lowest level in scales of measurement? Is a way of grouping behavior‚ where actual numbers are simply labels or identifiers. -they do not put subjects in any particular order: no logical basis for the answers in each
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( 23 ) Az oil Co. agrees to supply a quantity of oil to CRT Distributors Bhd at RM24.00 per barrel or RM26.00 per barrel Discuss the legal status of such agreement. Az oil Co. agree to supply a quantity of oil to CRT Distributors Bhd at RM24.00 per barrel or RM26.00 per barrel. This is a contract and the contract is a legal‚ because Az oil Co agree to supply oil per barrel to CRT Distributors Bhd. Consideration need not be adequate Section 26 “ an agreement is not void merely because the consideration
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formal tentative statement of the expected relationship between two or more variables under study. Definition: A hypothesis is an assumption statement about the relationship between two or more variables that suggest an answer to the research question. OR Good & Hatt define hypothesis as shrewd guess or inference that is formulated and provisionally adopted to explain observed facts or conditions and to guide in further investigation
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date: 26th May 2014 The assignment is due at the beginning of the class. Late assignment will not be accepted. For this assignment‚ complete all of the following questions. Question 1 A manufacturer of cat food was planning to survey households in the US to determine purchasing habits of cat owners. Among the questions to be included are those that relate to 1. Where cat fat is primarily purchased. 2. Whether dry or moist cat food is purchased. 3. The number of cats living in the
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symmetrical‚ positively skewed or negatively skewed? Explain your answer. - It is positively skewed because the mean is the largest of the three measures and the mode is the smallest of the three measures. Chapter Self Review page 3 3-7 82 The Philly office of PWC hired five (5) accounting trainees this year. Their monthly starting salaries were $4‚420 $3‚966 $4‚310 $3‚901 $4‚528 Rewrite ; 3‚901 3‚966 4‚310 4‚420 4‚528 a. Showing the detailed equations and
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EAST END COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND COMPUTING BUSINESS STRATEGY MOIN UDDIN AHMED ID: 1609131406 1 Table of contents Page Answer Q 1.1 Strategic terminology and situation 3 Answer Q 1.2 Strategic planning related issues 3 Answer Q 1.3 Various techniques of planning 4 Answer Q 2.1 TNT audit use by SWOT 6 Answer Q 2.2 TNT environment audit use by PESTEL 6 Answer Q 2.3 Importance of stakeholder’s analysis 7 Answer Q 3.1 Alternatives strategies (proposed) for TNT 8 Answer Q 3.2 TNT future
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Trajico‚ Maria Liticia D. BSEd III-A2 REFLECTION The first thing that puffs in my mind when I heard the word STATISTIC is that it was a very hard subject because it is another branch of mathematics that will make my head or brain bleed of thinking of how I will handle it. I have learned that statistic is a branch of mathematics concerned with the study of information that is expressed in numbers‚ for example information about the number of times something happens. As I examined on what
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The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey contains a multitude of conflicts. Some of those are minor conflicts and some are major. One major conflict is the obvious humans versus aliens hostility that drives Cassie forward and reminds her of why survival is important; a minor conflict would be Cassie coping with the reality that she murdered somebody for no reason other than her paranoia‚ and a final minor conflict would be the antagonism between Ben and Reznik. Firstly‚ the most conspicuous conflict throughout
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1. Why is risk mitigation and filling in critical security gaps an important next step after the security assessment is performed? During your security assessment you probably found some gaps‚ some of them may be critical gaps‚ so naturally the next step should be to fix those gaps. Once you know you are exposed you want to fix those gaps ASAP before they get exploited. 2. How do you align the results of the qualitative risk assessment to risk mitigation? You align the results by how likely each
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