...Hopefully you will find this week’s iLab activity fun and useful. We’ll be exploring the world of statistics from a business perspective this week, allowing you to practice your skills with descriptive statistics, formatting, graphs, and regression analysis. As discussed in the lesson, the value of statistics lies in the ability to analyze data more effectively for the purpose of improving decision making. You might have heard the expression that “statistics never lie, and only liars use statistics”. There is an obvious truth in this statement, in that, depending on the questions being asked and the data collected, the statistics can skew reality. For example, it is true that as ice cream sales increase, accidents at swimming pools increase. Does this mean that the more ice cream that is sold, the more accidents it causes (correlation/causation)? Of course not, but the data, if not interpreted correctly, could lead to false conclusions. It just so happens that both are correlated to a rise in temperature in the summertime. The hotter it is outside, the more kids flock to swimming pools, leading to more accidents, and the more ice cream is sold. So you see, although statistics are vital in the world of decision making, you have to be wise, and ask the right questions. Software Citation Requirements This course uses open-source software, which must be cited when used for any student work. Citation requirements are on the Open Source Applications page. Please review the installation...
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...uk/en/grad-school/res-skills-training/res-train-dev/mod-timetable/ Module Overview: This module is taught in lectures and practical classes. This includes sessions on quantitative methods and an appropriate statistical package. Module aims: This module aims to give students a broad knowledge of a range of methodological and analytical skills, which they can apply in a variety of research contexts. As well as giving students a grounding in the basic principles of quantitative research methodology, the module will (i) look at how data can be described, (ii) introduce a range of statistical tests commonly used, and (iii) explore what the results mean in terms of the research question posed. The module comprises lectures, and the delivery will involve hands-on lab work using an appropriate statistical package. Module Objective Learning Outcomes: On completion of this module, students should be able to demonstrate: • An ability to apply a variety of different statistical methods to their research project. • An ability to collect, store, manage, test and interpret data. • An understanding of the epistemological and methodological difficulties associated with different techniques. • An ability to use computer software associated with the analysis of quantitative data. • An awareness of the ethical issues surrounding data collection and analysis. Skills Taught: On completion of this module, students should be able to; • Conduct research in a manner that is consistent with professional...
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...the workbook Dunedin_Statistics. 2. Rename the Worksheet Dunedin Climate to Climate. 3. Insert a row at the top of the sheet and insert the heading, ‘Dunedin Climate Statistics'. Format the heading appropriately. (bold, font size and type, fill colour, merge and centre) 4. Adjust the column widths so all information can be viewed. 5. Use functions to show the average, maximum, and minimum for each column. 6. Format all numbers to show one decimal place. 7. Format the sheet appropriately. 8. Select the worksheet called Countries of Overseas Birth. 9. Select the heading and format it appropriately as a heading. 10. Use functions to show the average, maximum, minimum and count for column B. 11. Format the sheet appropriately, for instance add borders and format all answers to zero decimal places. 12. Delete the worksheet called Overseas Birth Place. 13. Save and show your work for to your teacher for checking. Excel Lab Exercise B Open the workbook Statistics Monthly Sales 1. Sort the data by Month in ascending order 2. Below the data find the average, maximum and minimum sales 3. Use the Fill button to replace the month numbers with month names, starting with January. 4. Insert an appropriate heading. 5. Format the sheet appropriately Tommy’s Cars 1. Use the SUM function to put in the totals 2. Format the sheet appropriately Shares 1. Sort the data so that is in order of year 2. Put in a formula to calculate the P/E ratio....
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...NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Student: Yvette Davis THIS FORM MUST BE COMPLETELY FILLED IN Follow these procedures: If requested by your instructor, please include an assignment cover sheet. This will become the first page of your assignment. In addition, your assignment header should include your last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number. This should be left justified, with the page number right justified. For example: DavisYBTM7104-6 1 | Academic integrity: All work submitted in each course must be your own original work. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by your instructor. Knowingly submitting another person’s work as your own, without properly citing the source of the work, is considered plagiarism. This will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course. It may also result in academic dismissal from the University. | | BTM8104-8 | Dr. Amy Grace Vaughan | | | Statistics I | BTM8104-6 Population in the News | | | ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- Statistics is used for a variety of things in today’s society. It is used to determine valuable information in reference to information shared through the news as well. In fact, the news topic discussed in this...
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...better doing this as the semester progresses All Individual work 1. Problem 1.22 in text – Chapter 1 (P. 13). Answer all parts a-d. (0.5 point) 2. Problem 1.27 in text – Chapter 1. (P. 13) Use the survey questions 1 - 14 to answer parts (a),(b),(c). That is, for each of the survey questions indicate which are a) categorical b) numerical-continuous or c) numerical-discrete. Try to provide some indication as to why it is that type. (0.5 points) Group work 3. From the file PS1_S14_Absent.xlsx in Laulima Resources Problem Sets PS1, create a Summary table, Pie chart, Bar chart, and Pareto chart for the Rate variable using PHStat – One-Way Tables and Charts. Copy and paste the table and charts into your word document and answer the following questions: (a) From the table which is the least frequent absenteeism rate? (b) From the Bar chart which two absenteeism rates are the most frequent? (c) From the pie chart what is percent of absenteeism rate high? (d) From the Pareto chart the two most frequent two absenteeism rates contribute what percentage together? (1 point) How-to: Click on Add-Ins - PHSTAT - Descriptive Statistics and choose One Way Tables and Charts. Check Raw Categorical data. Click in the Raw Data Cell Range window and then highlight the entire column labeled Rate. Choose the pie, bar charts since you will need all these at some point. PHStat puts the table on 1 sheet and the graphs on another, but you can change the location...
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...better doing this as the semester progresses All Individual work 1. Problem 1.22 in text – Chapter 1 (P. 13). Answer all parts a-d. (0.5 point) 2. Problem 1.27 in text – Chapter 1. (P. 13) Use the survey questions 1 - 14 to answer parts (a),(b),(c). That is, for each of the survey questions indicate which are a) categorical b) numerical-continuous or c) numerical-discrete. Try to provide some indication as to why it is that type. (0.5 points) Group work 3. From the file PS1_S14_Absent.xlsx in Laulima Resources Problem Sets PS1, create a Summary table, Pie chart, Bar chart, and Pareto chart for the Rate variable using PHStat – One-Way Tables and Charts. Copy and paste the table and charts into your word document and answer the following questions: (a) From the table which is the least frequent absenteeism rate? (b) From the Bar chart which two absenteeism rates are the most frequent? (c) From the pie chart what is percent of absenteeism rate high? (d) From the Pareto chart the two most frequent two absenteeism rates contribute what percentage together? (1 point) How-to: Click on Add-Ins - PHSTAT - Descriptive Statistics and choose One Way Tables and Charts. Check Raw Categorical data. Click in the Raw Data Cell Range window and then highlight the entire column labeled Rate. Choose the pie, bar charts since you will need all these at some point. PHStat puts the table on 1 sheet and the graphs on another, but you can change the location...
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...Assessment Task 1 - Essay Choose one of the following topics: Sam is a recently graduated health professional and has observed that clinical practices vary in the different health care facilities. Sam is confused about which practice is the most effective to give patients better health outcomes according to the latest research literature. In this essay you will be required to use this scenario to: Topic 1: Define evidence based practice and discuss the possible facilitators and barriers for Sam to utilise the best research evidence in clinical practice. OR Topic 2: Discuss qualitative and quantitative approaches to research and how Sam can apply the evidence that is generated from one of these approaches to evidence based clinical practice. Due Date: Tuesday 23rd April at 2pm. Word Length: 1000 words Weighting: 35% Purpose: To demonstrate your achievement of each learning outcome shown below. Learning outcomes assessed: 3, 4, 5, 7, and 10. 3. Reflect on and analyse health related situations and contexts; (ACU Graduate Attribute 4) 4. Develop inquiring questions related to health related situations and contexts; 5. Select appropriate types of knowledge required to analyse and problem solve various health care situations and contexts; 7. Develop effective strategies to identify and respond to your professional learning needs; 10. Demonstrate respect for the values and beliefs of health consumers and colleagues in applying knowledge...
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...material. She also found material based on the product’s characteristic and function. | | 2. Taking care financial issues. (leader Yen) | Recording and confirming the statistics for 4 main activities in balance sheet (QA + H) | Confirming that received statistics is truth based on bills. | On time | No effective | At first, Ms. Q.A is assigned to do this task alone. However, she is trustful and do not check the bill to confirm the accuracy of statistic. Ms. Yen assigned me to help Q.A after that, This caused wasting time in doing this job even if this task can be done better. | Ms. Yen – the leader of this task need understand deeply not only about their partner’s skill but also their characteristic in order to assign job task correctly. | 3. Designing & providing relevant material (leader Q.Anh) | Designing a drop box and provide 40 drop boxes(packaging, material) (QA) | Achieving 40 drop box | On time | Effective | These two tasks are undertaken by Ms. Q. A. She set up suitable plan as well as concentrate on preparation to do them simultaneously and meet the objectives, | | | Designing poster and provide 75 posters (QA) | Designing and providing 75 poster | On time | Effective | | | | Designing and providing 50 company information sheet (T) | Designing and providing 50 company information sheets | On time | Effective | Because Ms. Trang have well-knowledge about VinaClean Company’s...
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...Accounting and finance are closely related to a certain extent in which both deal with the financial aspects of a company. Accounting and finance work together in creating “a company’s budget or working capital analysis” (Wise-Geek, 2012, p. 1). Accounting involves recording of an organizations operations of a business as well as showing the information in the outline profit and loss accounts, which demonstrates the gain or loss of the organizations throughout the year. In addition, accounting includes provisions of a balance sheet replicating the monetary positions of a business at a specific time period. It should provide clear and precise figures about the proprietary and financial condition in a specific entity. Finance is a wider view and uses information, which is obtainable in the accounting area such as “profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow statement” (Parikh, 2011, p. 1) to decide upon financially linked judgments, for instance how to increase funds for upcoming plans of a business. These statements provide a valuable amount of information for a company. The statistics retained in these statements assists financial directors with analyzing past performance as well as future inclinations of a business. Both accounting and finance must be used together to make effective decisions for a company therefore, finance uses past statistics from the accounting aspect to formulate future decisions. In order to determine financial viability within a health care organization,...
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...Economics ECON* 2740 (Economic Statistics) Instructor: Maynard Midterm VERSION CODE: B Fall, 2015 Duration: 120 minutes Aids Allowed: One two-sided handwritten 4 by 6 inch index card formula sheet. Only simple calculators without programming and scientific functions allowed as determined by the exam proctors. No other electronic devises permitted. Answer all questions. • Multiple choice questions should be answered on the Computer Answer Sheet. All other questions must include all work on the exam. No credit without work. • Identify yourself (name and student number) on the Computer Answer Sheet by filling in the circles. • Sign your exam, initial each page, and keep your student ID out on the desk in front of you. • Use only an HB or soft pencil to completely darken the appropriate choice on the answer sheet. • With the sole exception of simple, non-programable, non-scientific calculators, use of electronic devices is not permitted. Determination of which calculators are permitted is at the sole discretion of the exam proctors. Please turn off your cell-phone and all other electronic devices, placing these together with any personal items at the front of the room. • You cannot leave the room during the exam without explicit permission from the proctor. • The total marks are provided on the back of your exam. Your grade on the exam will be based on the percentage of correct marks. • Hand in your entire exam together with your computer sheet at the end of the exam. ...
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...data I picked was Intrinsic. I picked intrinsic because Of what the definition said it was which was belonging naturally. A qualitative variable is a variable without a sense of order. A qualitative variable is measured on a nominal scale. A nominal scale is a scale with no order but has some numeric values are nominal. An example nominal scale would be the data showed on the excel sheet for this assignment where male and female are showed as, 1-male and 2-female. Quantitative variables are numerical. An example of quantitative variables would be the number of people in a town which is a measurable attribute. Population is a quantitative variable. An easy way to remember the two variables is when you think of qualitative variables think or something being categorical and when you think of quantitative think of numerical. Qualitative variable The data above use qualitative variable. As stated before a qualitative variable is measured on a nominal scale. A nominal scale is a scale with no order but has some numeric values. An example nominal scale would be the data showed on the excel sheet for this assignment where male and female are showed as, 1-male and 2-female. As you can see everything listed on the above chart is in no specific order but is number so that you know what’s what. Now that I know the how everything is listed I can look at the other chart and understand which is the information for the women and which is for the men. I also know that I can...
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...[pic] Higher National Diploma in Hospitality Management ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Please complete ALL sections below. Student I.D. Surname: First Name: Programme: Tutor’s Name Submitted to: My Page UNIT Name: Submission date: Assignment title: Full Brief For Tourist Destinatons |LO1 Understand the scope of key UK and |1.1 analyse main tourist destinations and generators of the world in terms of visitor numbers and income generation | |worldwide tourist destinations |1.2 analyse statistics to determine tourism destination trends and predict future trends | |LO2 Understand the cultural, |2.1 analyse cultural, social and physical features of tourist destinations explaining their appeal to tourists | |social and physical features |2.2 compare features of developing and leading tourist destinations | |of tourist destinations | | |LO3 Understand how the |3.1 compare the appeal of current leading tourist destinations with that of currently developing tourist...
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...UNSW School of Economics ECON1203 Business and Economic Statistics Session 1, 2015 Major project: AdVantage Purpose The idea is of this assignment is to simulate a professional work task involving statistical analysis. It is designed to help students learn about what is involved in undertaking basic statistical analysis to understand a real-world problem, and communicating the results of this analysis to business stakeholders. Context and Problem You are working as a business analyst for Crunch-IT Consultants, a Sydney-based company that specializes in providing statistical consulting services to small and medium-sized companies. Your company is contacted by AdVantage, a designer of online advertisements whose business model is based on selling their design services to businesses that place ads on social media sites. You attend a breakfast meeting with a senior Crunch-IT consultant and AdVantage’s owner-operator, Arnold Valenzuela, to discuss Arnold’s concerns. At the meeting, Arnold says: “Well, first, I’d like to know whether any of the four designers I’ve hired are underperforming relative to their peers. It’s easy to see that there are big differences across my designers in the styles of their ads, and I can’t help thinking that maybe some styles drive traffic better than others – but maybe that’s not the case. Of course, as with any business, ensuring I am offering a value proposition to clients is key to generating repeat business and word-ofmouth...
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...Economic Forecast Paper The discussion in this paper is about Economic Forecast. The different places that are discussed will be The Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Economic Report of the President, The Federal Reserve System, and The United States Census Bureau. Over the course of this paper we will see how each department is important in our economy and what each department does in order to help or hinder the economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was established on June 27, 1884 as a division of the Department of the Interior. President Chester Arthur appointed Carroll Wright as the first Commissioner of Labor. Many studies, reports, and statistical ideas developed under Wright’s tenure, “but perhaps his greatest accomplishment was the establishment of the principle that the Bureau would be devoted to ‘the fearless publication of the facts without regard to the influence those facts may have upon any party's position or any partisan's views’” (“History of BLS”, 2013). As the fundamental fact finders for the Federal Government in the area of labor economics and statistics, the BLS collects data from various sources. It processes and analyzes the data before publishing essential statistics for use by the American public; federal, state, and local governments; and businesses. “BLS data must satisfy a number of criteria, including relevance to current social and economic issues, timeliness in reflecting today’s rapidly changing economic...
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...Logistics/Transportation issues (Association Global Logistics and Transportation, 2009).NDTA is an Association that can develop professional knowledge and abilities, contribute toward increasing my professional knowledge and abilities and its guiding principle of vision, mission, values, can affect ones career success. According, to the Association Global Logistics and Transportation (2009) website increasing my professional knowledge and abilities by NDTA values: Integrity: Conduct in an open, honest, and ethical manner. Teamwork: Maximize collective talents though teamwork and partnerships based on mutual trust, fairness, respect, cooperation, and communication. Service: Pursue excellence in their endeavors. Take pride in work, anticipate and respond to member and partner needs by providing quality products and services. Action: Association Global Logistics and Transportation (NDTA) considers the ideas of others and then relentlessly press to resolve issues or reach solutions, in a decisively manner. Diversity: Association Global Logistics and Transportation (NDTA) value members, employers and supporters, their capabilities and differences and the unique contributions that each brings to organization (Association Global Logistics and Transportation, 2009). According U.S. Department of Labor career guide to industries (2010) website Knowledge and...
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