BIO 2003 SUMMATIVE ASSIGNMENT 2 Introduction: The report analyses the result of a study on workers from brick and tile industries conducted by the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL). HSL put down few criteria’s to the workers which being that neither of the workers from the tiles and brick industries should have worked in both the industries and that they did not smoke. The criteria’s put across was an assurance to attain reliable results. The essence of the study lies in detecting any difference
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Manual sales invoices were no pre-numbered Implication Current recommendation Future Recommendation It is time consuming if they want to refer to the specific customers’ details‚ credit term‚ amount due to DESB Request for the debtors that still have outstanding amount to the company to make payment within the specific time‚ 2 months‚ by giving 10% discount for those who made the payment during the first month. Give manual numbering to the Sales invoices Assign
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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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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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Winglets Sales Agreement This Winglets Sales Agreement (this “Agreement”) dated as of the 23rd day of October‚ 2016‚ by and between CAROLINA MANUFACTURING AND DESING‚ INC. (“Seller”) referred to as Carolina‚ a small medium-sized corporation and EL – BUBBA (“Buyer”). WITNESSETH: WHERAS‚ Seller is engaged in the business of producing and selling winglets; and WHERAS‚ Buyer proposes to purchase these winglets from Carolina for a period of no less than five years with the right to continue to do business
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Statistics Investigation Introduction A new drug was developed that was claimed to lower the cholesterol level in humans. A leading heart specialist was interested to know if the claim made by the company selling the drug was accurate. They enlisted the help of 50 patients. They agreed to take part in an experiment in which 25 patients would be randomly allocated to a group that would take the new drug and the other 25 would take an identical looking pill that was a placebo (a sugar pill that
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