Definition: Statistics is the study of the collection‚ organization‚ analysis‚ interpretation and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of this‚ including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. A statistician is someone who is particularly well-versed in the ways of thinking necessary for the successful application of statistical analysis. Such people have often gained experience through working in any of a wide number of fields. Some
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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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ASSIGNMENT: Ethics in Statistics There are a number of possible ways in which unethical behavior can arise in statistics and researchers should steer clear of these. It is relatively simple to manipulate and hide data‚ projecting only what one desires and not what the numbers actually speak‚ thus giving birth to the famous phrase “Lies‚ damned lies and statistics”. However‚ this doesn’t happen all the time and there is no reason not to believe in the conclusions of a statistical analysis (Siddharth
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techniques can be used to analyze nominal level data to describe variables‚ examine relationships among variables‚ and determine differences between groups in distribution-free or non-normally distributed samples. The assumptions of nonparametric statistics are: (1) values from measurement of study variables need not be normally distributed in the sample‚ and (2) the level of measurement of study variables is usually nominal or ordinal. The mode is the only measure of central tendency that can be calculated
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1. Following the explosion of the 25th space shuttle flight‚ which was caused by an O-ring failure in one or more of the booster rockets‚ data from the previous 24 flights were studied. The Temperature (F) at the time of launch and whether or not there was evidence of O-ring failures for each of the previous 24 shuttle flights was determined for each flight. A logistic regression relating the Failure of O-rings to the Temperature was obtained with the following result: Estimate Std. Error z value Intercept
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The Consumer Behavior of the Filipino Middle Class Youth As Taken From De La Salle University Students “A Market Study on Brand and Product Preferences of the Youth” In partial fulfilment of the requirements in Economic Statistics 4/16/2009 Submitted to: Dr. Cesar Rufino Samuel John Daniel B. Paculan I. BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY This study was done to determine the preferences of the youth toward local and imported brands‚ so as to find out the marketability of local brands
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Providing a therapeutic activity for a patient in long term care Health Care: Graded Unit 1 F0KF 34 March 2012 Contents Introduction Page 3 Planning Stage Page 4-9 Development Stage Page 10-13 Introduction As part of my Higher National Certificate course in healthcare I am required to provide evidence of achieving the following principle aims in the form of a graded unit; * Knowledge‚ theory and practice in a variety of health care settings
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Chapter 20 Forming and Operating Partnerships Solution Manual Discussion Questions: 1. [LO 1] What is a flow-through entity‚ and what effect does this designation have on how business entities and their owners are taxed? Flow-through entities are entities that are not taxed on the entity level; rather‚ these entities are taxed on the owner’s level. These types of entities conduct a regular business; however‚ the income earned and deductions allowed are passed to the owners of these
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variable(s) is (are) measured at interval or ratio levels. 3. The groups examined for differences are dependent based on matching or subjects serving as their own control. 4. The differences between the paired scores are independent QUESTIONS TO BE GRADED. 1. What are the two groups whose results are reflected by the t ratios in Tables 2 and 3? 2. Which t ratio in Table 2
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CHAPTER TWO DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL PRESENTATIONS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 1. A frequency distribution is a tabular summary of data showing the a. fraction of items in several classes b. percentage of items in several classes c. relative percentage of items in several classes d. number of items in several classes Answer: d 2. A frequency distribution is a. a tabular summary of a set of data showing the relative frequency b. a graphical form of
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