Omkar & Yaying Wednesday 5-6pm WEEK 3 BES PASS Descriptive Statistics Population - a set of all possible observations. Sample - a portion of a population. We often use information concerning a sample to make an inference (conclusion) about the population. Parameter - describes a characteristic of the population‚ eg: the population variance Statistic- describes a characteristic of a sample‚ eg: the sample variance Frequency Distribution and Histograms Class - a collection of
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Methodology of estimating the population in UAE 1) The Component Method : This method is used when data are available from a census (base year population) ‚ administrative records of births and deaths and net migration. The estimate is obtained by adding both natural increase and net migration that have occurred since the last census according to following formula: Pt = Po+B-D+I-E Where: Pt The Current Estimate Po The Base Year resident Population (2005 census). B Births that
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Progress Task Eassy "Being a manager in today ’s dynamic workplace provides many challenges. Describe and discuss the challenges and rewards of being a manager in a contemporary organisation". Managers face varieties of challenge in their job. If a manager had a strong goal to be successful‚ challenges are the necessary parts of their job. Manager need to have three essential skills for without these skills‚ effectiveness can not be realized
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What are the major problems with regard to the collection of crime statistics? There are two main sources for published crime statistics; the British Crime Survey‚ a face to face victimization survey‚ covering experiences of crime in the previous twelve months‚ and police recorded crime which is supplied by 43 different territorial police forces on a monthly basis (Home Office‚ 2011). Both sources have different strengths and weaknesses such as police discretion for recording certain crimes or
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developed by an American whose name was Hiram Maxim. He made the power of machine guns that more deadly. The weapons full potential was demonstrated in Somme battlefield in July 1916‚ when it killed and wounded almost 60‚000 British soldiers in only one day. Imagine how lethal this gun is when it just killed nearly 60‚000 people. This gun was at the time the best of the best to use in a battle field. Now imagine how things would be if both sides of the battlefield would have this exact same weapon
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------------------------------------------------- Introduction: This data set we have been assigned to analyze highlights the fuel-efficiency of the mentioned cars relative to several other variables. One of the major issues most stressed upon to date is the ever-increasing threat of environmental degradation‚ global warming‚ and the need to conserve our scarce natural resources. This has led us to examine the fuel efficiency of cars. With rising gas prices‚ owning a car can become quite costly
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Every person loses sometimes. In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem "One Art‚" Bishop displays her accepting attitude to losing. Using verse form and language‚ Bishop is able to express her different feelings about losing. Because of her experiences with loss‚ the poet is able to express her attitude towards loss. Throughout the poem‚ verse form plays an important role in Elizabeth Bishop’s description of losing. Every tercet from lines 1 to 15 helps to describe that the speaker "[loses] something everyday
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QUESTION 1 The managing partner for Westwood One Investment Managers Inc. gave a public seminar in which she discussed a number of issues‚ including investment risk analysis. In that seminar‚ she reminded people that the coefficient of variation can often be used as a measure of risk of an investment. To demonstrate her point of view‚ she used two hypothetical stocks as examples. She let x equal the change in assets for a $1‚000.00 investment in stock1 and y reflect the change in assets for a
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ECO 72 INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC STATISTICS Topic 2 Measures of Central Tendency These slides are copyright © 2003 by Tavis Barr. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License‚ v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). Measures of Central Tendency This chapter looks at three different concepts of how we describe a “typical” element of a data set. Mean
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X-axis but never actually touches it? Yes‚ asymptotic means that the curve of a line will approach 0 (the x-axis)‚ but it will not touch 0 and instead will extend to infinity. In this class‚ this applies to the normal continuous distribution and is one of the 4 key characteristics of a normal continuous distribution that our text book discusses. This means that the curve of the line will extend infinitely in both the negative and positive direction in exact mirror image patterns on either side of
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