Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing Name: Math 256‚ Nelson 1. A soft-drink machine is regulated so that the amount of drink dispensed is approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation equal to 1.5 deciliters. Find a 95% confidence interval for the mean of all drinks dispensed by this machine if a random sample of 36 drinks had an average content of 2.25 dl. 2. The heights of a random sample of 50 college students showed a mean of 174.5 centimeters. Assume the
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LESSON – 1 STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT Session – 1 Duration: 1 hr Meaning of Statistics The term statistics mean that the numerical statement as well as statistical methodology. When it is used in the sense of statistical data it refers to quantitative aspects of things and is a numerical description. Example: Income of family‚ production of automobile industry‚ sales of cars etc. These quantities are numerical. But there are some quantities‚ which are not in themselves numerical
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Data Analysis: Analyzing Data - Inferential Statistics Inferential statistics deal with drawing conclusions and‚ in some cases‚ making predictions about the properties of a population based on information obtained from a sample. While descriptive statistics provide information about the central tendency‚ dispersion‚ skew‚ and kurtosis of data‚ inferential statistics allow making broader statements about the relationships between data. Inferential statistics are frequently used to answer cause-and-effect
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Lawrence 10/15/2012 What can crime statistics tell us about the extent of crime in America today? Explain? I think that crime statistics tells us the variation of crimes that are being committed. Each year the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Uniformed Crime Rate Program (UCR) collects information from law enforcement agencies throughout the United States‚ giving a total of how much crime is committed in each state. Crime statistics tells us that crime is up and on the rise‚ and
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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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History and Development of Statistics Simple forms of statistics have been used since the beginning of civilization‚ when pictorial representations or other symbols were used to record numbers of people‚ animals‚ and inanimate objects on skins‚ slabs‚ or sticks of wood and the walls of caves. Before 3000 BC theBabylonians used small clay tablets to record tabulations of agricultural yields and of commodities bartered or sold. The Egyptians analyzed the population and material wealth of their country
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Official statistics are published by the Home Office regarding the number of different types of crimes committed and the backgrounds of those responsible. Official statistics are published annually and are used to compare the difference in crime year by year‚ from this government policies are revised and adjusted where they see fit. Some sociologists see the statistics as an invaluable source of information whereas others question their accuracy. Positivists and Functionalists have taken official
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University of Perpetual Help System Dalta Molino Campus Molino III‚ Bacoor City Probability and Statistics LAGERA‚ Einar John A. Table of Contents Simple Correlation Analysis ................................................................................................. 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................. 1 What is Correlation? ...........
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BICOL STATE COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NAGA CITY HISTORY OF STATISTICS Group 3 Members: Tricia Mae Berja Michelle Lee Desiree Basmayor Mica Rubio Gian Perucho Ivan Ricafort Ms. Donnalyn Matamorosa Dominic Bobis Teacher Alex Obligado Ancient Times (3000 BC – 27 BC) * Pictorial representation and other symbols were used for Statistics back in the days. (To record numbers of people‚ animals‚ etc.) * In Babylonia and China‚ population is
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Association [ASA]‚ 2008). Statistics is a division of mathematics that centers on the collection and evaluation of data‚ which can be drawn upon to make conclusions (Aron‚ Aron‚ & Coups‚ 2006‚ 2). Two branches of statistics exist‚ including descriptive and inferential domains. Extrapolation beyond the data is where the real difference emerges. Indeed‚ these two subcategories vary in function and definition. However‚ a relationship exists between descriptive and inferential statistics‚ irrespective of the
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