Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life This chapter taught me the importance of understanding statistical data and how to evaluate it with common sense. Almost everyday we are subjected to statistical data in newspapers and on TV. My usual reaction was to accept those statistics as being valid. Which I think is a fair assessment for most people. However‚ reading this chapter opens my eyes to the fact that statistical data can be very misleading. It shows how data can be skewed to support a certain
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Critique The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has a long history‚ starting back during World War II. This paper will give a brief history of the DSM and provide some context for the DSM such as: What is it? What is it used for? Who uses it and why? DSM and diagnoses strengths and challenges will also be discussed. Some interesting literature about the DSM and it’s challenges will also be discussed. A big thing happened in the 1940’s
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 BASIC STATISTICAL TOOLS There are lies‚ damn lies‚ and statistics...... (Anon.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Definitions 6.3 Basic Statistics 6.4 Statistical tests -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6.1 Introduction In the preceding chapters basic elements for the proper
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protective relays which is used in the practical application at industries to protect motors transformers and other electronic and electrical equipment and power system. DESIGN PRINCIPLE: The over voltage and under voltage relay is designed using potential
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Statistical Analysis and Application of Charts Presented To: Mam Ayesha IftikharPresented By: Hassan Bashir Roll Number: bba02141016 Program : BBA Semester : 2nd Date: 19-Oct-2014 Research Questionnaire/ Objective: Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data Uses of appropriate charts under the specific/general scenario. To ensure that statistical tools are the important for decision making. Type of Data: Quantitative Data Qualitative data Quantitative Data: Quantitative data is data expressing
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36 students‚ shows them the film‚ and gives them a questionnaire about their attitudes. The mean score on the questionnaire for these 36 students is 70. The score for people in general on this questionnaire is 75‚ with a standard deviation of 12. Using the five steps of hypothesis testing and the 5% significance level (i.e. alpha = .05)‚ does showing the film change students’ attitudes towards the chronically mentally ill? • What does it mean to set alpha at .05? Alpha at .05 means there is a
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t i o n onn rt r i n stEPPEr Motor controL usinG 89c51 MicrocontroLLEr Mandeep Singh Walia H ere’s a stepper motor controller based on 89C51 microcontroller to control the rotation of a DC stepper motor in clockwise and anti-clockwise directions. The controller is simple and easy-to-construct‚ and can be used in many applications including machine control and robotics for controlling the axial rotation in XY plane. A similar circuit can be added to control the rotation of the motor in either XZ
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Project Proposal Statistical Learning and Data Mining Overview: Efficient asset allocation through statistical learning methods and comparison of methods for the creation of an index tracking ETF (Exchange traded fund) Datasets: The datasets are chosen from the website of the book “Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering” by David Ruppert. The book is mentioned as one of the references for this course. The two data sets chosen are 1. Stock_FX_Bond.csv 2. Stock_FX_Bond_2004_to_2006
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Performance of Safety Incidents Statistical Analysis of Safety Incident Rates Table of Contents Introduction 3 Part I. Graphical Descriptive Statistics 3 Part II. Binomial Probability Distribution 4 Part III. Inferential Statistics 5 Part IV. One Sample Hypothesis T-test 5 Part V. Two Sample Hypothesis T-test 6 Part VI. Paired (matched) Observation – Two Populations Hypothesis 6 Part VII. Linear Regression and Correlation Study 7 Part VIII. ANOVA – One-Way Test of Variance 7 Part
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===================================================================== The Top 5 Reasons Gun Control is Dead. Time to bury the non-functional authoritarian idea of people control that has been negated by circumstances and technology. It’s the same pattern every time‚ within minutes of a mass murder attack‚ calls for Intergalactic Background Checks or Gun confiscation are heard throughout the media. To be clear‚ these repeated assaults against our commonsense civil rights by those who are supposedly
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