Copyright Financial Times Information Limited Jul 9‚ 2002 Ron Beaumont‚ chief operating officer of WorldCom‚ is one of several senior executives who should have been aware of discrepancies in the telecommunications company’s books before the near-$4bn fraud was revealed last month‚ according to people close to the company. The fraud that was allegedly engineered by Scott Sullivan‚ the chief financial officer who was fired the day the scandal was announced‚ led to a massive overstatement of WorldCom’s
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DS BST 322 Independent Project Background of the study: The data in the dataset comes from a longitudinal study of low-income women in four urban communities. In the original study‚ extensive information was collected in 1999 (Wave 1) and 2001 (Wave 2) from about 4‚000 women. A major purpose of the study was to understand the life trajectories of these women and their children during a period of major changes to social policies affecting poor people in the United States. The sample
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WorldCom was one of the leading telecommunication companies prior to its application for bankruptcy protection on July 21st‚ 2002. The firm’s decision to file for bankruptcy was a shocker move considering the amount of revenues and asset base the company had. It is believed that the firm was highly involved in fraudulent bookkeeping between the year 1999 and 2000 where they had managed to overstate its taxable income by at least $7 billion. It was also revealed that the company had committed itself
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COMPARISON BETWEEN COMPUTER CRIME ACT 1997 AND COMPUTER MISUSE ACT 1990 (UK) As the Malaysian society becomes more and more technology-savvy and Internet savvy due to the encouragement by the government and the country’s vision to be a world leading country in computer technology with the Multimedia Super Corridor‚ the number of computer-related crimes is on the rise. Therefore‚ in order to combat this new type of crime‚ the government of Malaysia had introduced a new legal framework to
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award: 8.33 out of 16.66 points For the following questions‚ would you collect information using a sample or a population? | (a) | To calculate the percentage of car owners in New York City | | | | Population | (b) | To know how many different private airlines provide service in the United States | | | | Sample | (c) | To estimate weekly earnings of computer programmers in United States | | | | Sample | (d) | To find the marks of a class
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Descriptive statistics information Descriptive statistics organize‚ summarize‚ and communicate a group of numerical observations and describe large amounts of data in a single number or in just a few numbers Inferential statistics Use samples to draw conclusions about a population Inferential statistical use sample data to make general estimates about the larger population‚ and infer or make an intelligence guess about‚ the population Sample: a set of observations drawn from the population
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Valerie Simmons Math533 Dr. Mark Beintema July 22‚ 2012 Course Project PART A The report below represents the detailed statistical analysis of the data collected from a sample of credit customers in the department chain store AJ DAVIS. The 1st individual variable is LOCATION which is a categorical variable. The three subcategories are Urban‚ Suburban and Rural. Since Location is a categorical variable‚ the measures of central tendency have not been calculated for this variable. The frequency
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Why do criminals commit another offence after being punished? Our world is full of different kinds of criminal people. The main question what stand before the present community is: Why so often laws are broken by citizens? Every person who behave so‚ has his/her own purposes and causes. It is rational to hope that after punishing person will never commit the crime. That he understood all his mistakes which were made in the past. However‚ frequently it is not so. Why do criminals prefer to go
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Location Location Income ($1000) Size Years Credit Balance($) Urban 1 54 3 12 4016 Rural 3 30 2 12 3159 Suburban 2 32 4 17 5100 Suburban 2 50 5 14 4742 Rural 3 31 2 4 1864 Urban 1 55 2 9 4070 Rural 3 37 1 20 2731 Urban 1 40 2 7 3348 Suburban 2 66 4 10 4764 Urban 1 51 3 16 4110 Urban 1 25 3 11 4208 Urban 1 48 4 16 4219 Rural 3 27 1 19 2477 Rural 3 33 2 12 2514 Urban 1 65 3 12 4214 Suburban 2 63 4 13 4965 Urban 1 42 6 15 4412 Urban 1 21 2 18 2448 Rural 3 44 1 7 2995 Urban 1 37 5
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1. For each of the following (a through d)‚ indicate which is a variable and which is a constant: a. The number of minutes in an hour. Constant b. Patients’ systolic blood pressure Variable c. Pi (π) – e.g.‚ for finding the circumference of a circle Constant d. College students’ level of depression Variable 2. For each of the following research questions‚ identify the independent variable and the dependent variable within each case (a through e): Does a person’s age affect psychological
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