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    Data Management Culminating Project: Exchange Rate VS Export Amount by: Ellen Zhang The Relationship between the Exchange Rate and the Export Amount in Canada [pic][pic] [pic][pic] Ellen Zhang Ms. Provisionnato MDM4U1 Date: December 20th‚ 2012 Table of Contents Introduction-------------------------------------------------------------------4 One Variable Analysis------------------------------------------------------6

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    C old Mountain ‚ Charles Frazier’s debut novel‚ won critical acclaim and the National Book Award for fiction when it was published in 1997. As an author of travel books and short stories‚ Frazier had ample experience in writing about landscapes and using a condensed prose style. Frazier applied these literary skills in crafting Cold Mountain’s episodic structure and detailed descriptive passages. Frazier’s prose draws on the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ the scope of southern novels by

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    would argue that every action is already decided for us. In Oedipus Rex‚ the main concept is that our destiny is predetermined‚ and nothing we do can change the outcome. This ides is introduced through the development of the plot in Oedipus Rex. In Outliers however‚ the main idea is that one cannot forge their own path through hard work. These ideas are introduced by the development of research on the topic of destiny and how practicing affects the outcome of various musicians. Although Sophocles‚ the

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    “The Changing American Family”: A Sociological View The families in America are steadily changing. While they remain our most valued and consistent source of strength and comfort‚ some families are becoming increasingly unstructured. In the past‚ the typical family consists of a working father‚ a stay at home mother and‚ of course‚ well-rounded children. Today‚ less than 20 percent of American families fit nicely into this cookie cutter image. American households have never been more diverse

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    similar each time the resistance was measured at each temperature. This then helps with the accuracy because if the repeated readings were not similar then the odd one out would be an outlier. I would then either repeat this experiment and substitute the new resistance value for the outlier OR simply leave out the outlier value when calculating the mean average. To calculate the mean average I would add up the 3 resistance values from each temperature and then divide by 3. 4. The temperature and the

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    Group 7 MOTION PICTURES INDUSTRY- CASE STUDY The data collected for a sample of 100 motion pictures produced in 2005 is given below. A survey is carried out to analyze how different variables of the Motion Picture Industry contribute to the success of its motion pictures. The study focuses on four major variables‚ Opening Gross Sales‚ Total Gross Sales‚ Number of Theatres and weeks in top 60. Motion Picture Opening Gross Sales( $millions) Total Gross Sales ($ millions) Number of Theaters

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    Chapter 1 Exercises 1. What is data mining? In your answer‚ address the following: Data mining refers to the process or method that extracts or \mines" interesting knowledge or patterns from large amounts of data. (a) Is it another hype? Data mining is not another hype. Instead‚ the need for data mining has arisen due to the wide availability of huge amounts of data and the imminent need for turning such data into useful information and knowledge. Thus‚ data mining can be viewed as the result of

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    test the relationship between 2 quantitative variables‚ we use correlation coefficient and it measured by standardized covariance measure and investigates linear dependence. Before doing this‚ it is better to first make a scatterplot to check the outliers and linearity then get the idea about the nature and strength relationship. Next‚ we should calculate the r for correlation coefficient of variation‚ which measures the degree of linear dependence. r is always in between -1 and +1. If r < 0 or

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    a clear thesis statement. For example‚ in our second paper‚ which require us to choose specific person who is an outlier in your view. After all the factors Gladwell wrote in his book Outlier‚ I thought my purpose in this paper to convince people that the person I choose is an outlier. What I need is to find information that makes my choice satisfied the characteristics of an outlier. After knowing my purpose‚ I started to work on my thesis statement. My thesis statement in this paper

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    results for fructose was 14.8 and the range for sucrose is 15.4. The reason for this is unknown‚ as many of the variables remained unchanged between tests. This however can be attributed to the outlier in the fifth test‚ where the yeast outperformed the other trials‚ nearly tripling them. Without this outlier‚ the range of fructose is reduced to 3.3 and the fructose does not produce more CO₂ than glucose. With the acceptation of glucose and lactose‚ the fifth test proved to be problematic. The results

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