FINAL COMPUTER ASSIGNMENT FOR STAT 1: Salary equity at SAFECORP You have been asked to provide statistical expertise in a lawsuit alleging discrimination against minority employees at Safecorp‚ a major banking institution. One of the issues at stake is salary equity. Your clients‚ the plaintiffs’ lawyers‚ have supplied a random sample of records from 474 employees (dataset = jobdata). The records include the following information: Variable name What the variable measures Type of measure id Employee
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Glossary of Research Terms This glossary is intended to assist you in understanding commonly used terms and concepts when reading‚ interpreting‚ and evaluating scholarly research in the social sciences. Also included are general words and phrases defined within the context of how they apply to social sciences research. Acculturation -- refers to the process of adapting to another culture‚ particularly in reference to blending in with the majority e.g.‚ an immigrant adopting American customs]
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MM305 Practice Midterm Exam Unit 1: Basic Statistics Review 1. Outliers defined as being between 1.5*IQR and 3*IQR to the left of Q1 or to the right of Q3 are considered ________. A) weak B) extreme C) mild D) statistically significant 2. What does a negative correlation coefficient indicate? A) When one variable increases‚ the other variable decreases. B) There is a nonlinear relationship between the two variables. C) When one variable increases‚ the other variable increases by a smaller proportion
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2011. Training programmes: Evaluation of Trainees’ Expectations and Experience. 2. Chimote‚ Niraj. 2011. Measurement of Efficacy of Training Programs: An Empirical Study of Employees’ Perspective 3. Mason‚ Robart D. and Douglas A. Lind. 1996. Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. 9th edition. 4. Kothari‚ C.R. 2008. Research Methodology‚ New age international publishers‚ 23rd edition
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student who successfully completes this course will possess a reasonable level of knowledge of basic statistics and their interpretations. LEARNING OUTCOMES At the end of the course‚ students should be able to: • Adequately define statistical concepts • Distinguish between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics • Distinguish between qualitative data and quantitative data • Classify data with respect to the four levels of measurement: nominal‚ ordinal‚ interval
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comparable to the old ones. Therefore they did a test with 40 samples of both new balls and old ones. The testing was performed with a mechanical hitting machine so that any difference between the mean distances for the two models could be measure to evaluate the difference in the two models‚ presented with the sample size of 40 and confidence level of 95%. The table below depicts a descriptive statistical summary for the case study. | Current Model | New Model | Sample Mean | 268.89 | 272.98 |
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Bangladesh and its major trading partner India‚ to see whether exchange rate has unit root or not. It has been found out that the PPP holds i.e. real exchange is not trend stationary in the long run‚ at a certain significance level. So the null hypothesis that real exchange root has unit root has been rejected. This paper should be seen as an exploratory study on this subject. Introduction The Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) theory‚ sometimes called the ‘inflation theory of exchange rates’ can be
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statistics are incredibly similar forms of research testing within psychology. Each seeks to analyze‚ describe‚ and possibly predict a population’s behavior. As with psychology itself‚ statistical analysis within psychology began as a philosophy (Goodwin‚ 2008). This philosophy quickly turned to a scientific pursuit‚ again mirroring psychology itself. A person observes‚ and wonders why that event occurred. That person makes a guess‚ known as forming a hypothesis‚ then he or she observes the situation again
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sample frame for this survey has been defined as a mixture of consumers and sellers of 18-50 years of age living in Dhaka‚ Bangladesh; specifications are also made with regards to the respondents’ age and education. For the data analysis‚ simple statistical data analysis procedures have been followed using SPSS 19. To determine whether a significant association exists between binomial variables‚ cross tabulation analysis and chi-square test have also been performed‚ in addition to mean and standard
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Supply Shocks: A Bayesian Analysis Using Long Run Identifying Restrictions”‚ American Journal of Agricultural Economics‚ 78‚ 530-41. Engle R. ..‚ and C. W. J. Granger‚ (1987)‚ “Co-integration and Error Correction: Representation‚ Estimation‚ and Testing”‚ Econometrica‚ 55(2)‚ 251-276. McCalla A. ..‚ (1982)‚ “Impact of Macroeconomic Policies Upon Agricultural Trade and International Agricultural Development”‚ American Journal of Agricultural Economics‚ 64(5)‚ 861-868‚ (December 1982). Orden D.‚ (1986b)
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