Examine the reasons why some sociologists choose to use official statistics when conducting research. Firstly‚ official statistics are a source of secondary quantitative data which are gathered by the government or other official bodies. Many reasons for their use by sociologists when conducting research stems from the fact that they are a form of secondary data; meaning that they are not collected by the sociologist themselves. This makes them high in practicality‚ representativeness and reliability
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Subject Areas Use of Statistics 1. World of Sports • Enter results from the different tournaments around the world • Research projects to improve the quality of the game and keep the fans interested • provide analysis on players and team strategy‚ as well as tackle larger research projects • statistical t tools include basic regression analysis‚ logistic regression‚ Monte Carlo simulation‚ classification‚ and hierarchical regression 2. Education • Statistics provides simple yet instant information
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WEEK FOUR DQ1 Explain the importance of random sampling. What problems/limitations could prevent a truly random sampling and how can they be prevented? Probability sampling‚ also known as random sampling‚ requires that every member of the study population have an equal opportunity to be chosen as a study subject. For each member of the population to have an equal opportunity to be chosen‚ the sampling method must select members randomly. Probability sampling allows every facet of the study population
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Working Paper 05-47 Statistics and Econometrics Series 09 July 2005 Departamento de Estadística Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Calle Madrid‚ 126 28903 Getafe (Spain) Fax (34) 91 624-98-49 BAYESIAN INFERENCE FOR THE HALF-NORMAL AND HALF-T DISTRIBUTIONS M.P. Wiper‚ F.J. Girón‚ A. Pewsey* Abstract In this article we consider approaches to Bayesian inference for the half-normal and half-t distributions. We show that a generalized version of the normal- gamma distribution is conjugate to the
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Introduction Statistics is a set of tools used to organize and analyze data. Data must either be numeric in origin or transformed by researchers into numbers. For instance‚ statistics could be used to analyze percentage scores English students receive on a grammar test: the percentage scores ranging from 0 to 100 are already in numeric form. Statistics could also be used to analyze grades on an essay by assigning numeric values to the letter grades‚ e.g.‚ A=4‚ B=3‚ C=2‚ D=1‚ and F=0. Employing
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Statistics Real Life Example #2Article: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/21/us-ebola-airports.htmlMy article is covering the recent “Ebola Outbreak”. In this‚ people are direly afraid of catching the Ebola virus. They are even going as far as screening people in airports who come from‚ and travel to‚ places where Ebola is much more spread amongst the population (mostly in Africa‚ for now). The article quotes: “Some members of Congress have urged President Barack Obama to ban all travel
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Statistics in Business Katherine Wolf QNT/275 April 3‚ 2015 Barry Adkins Statistics in Business Statistics is all about collecting numerical data‚ organizing it‚ and interpreting the data to form hypothesis. While interpreting the data we are able to draw all kinds of conclusions from weather forecasts to how much money a company is projected to make over the next year. There are different types of statistics that can be used for different outcomes. You have to first identify the
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Running head: Misuses Statistics 1 Misuses Statistics Regena Kelley MAT126: Survey of Mathematical Methods Instructor: Zhimin Huang January 21‚ 2013 Misuses Statistics 2 Misuses Statistics Statistics and survey are misused and not accurate because of many factors. The types of these statistics are found suspect samples‚ asking Biased questions and misleading graphs. There are businesses that use these statistics with questions to convice people to accept
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Cambridge International Examinations Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education * 5 4 6 7 6 4 4 5 8 8 * 0500/32 FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH Paper 3 Directed Writing and Composition May/June 2014 2 hours Candidates answer on the Question Paper. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name in the spaces provided. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples‚ paper clips‚ glue or correction fluid. DO NOT WRITE IN ANY BARCODES. Answer
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