Part 1. Basic Concepts of Statistics Basic Concepts of Statistics • Every four years, we suffer through an affliction, the presidential election. • Months before the election, public media will inform us that a poll conducted by the opinion research shows that a candidate gains support of more than 50 percent of voters. 1 2 Basic Concepts of Statistics • However, the high percent of support will be with a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. • What is meant by the term margin of error
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What Consulting Firms are Looking For October, 2015 What is a consultant? * ASK the audience what they think….is not a test, just want to understand what you think * Acknowledge their thoughts….reinforce/add with…a consultant is many things: * An advisor * A thought partner * A counselor…personal and professional * An analyst * A strategist * A change agent * ….all focused on helping others succeed…must get your satisfaction, and feel successful
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Chapter 2 Introduction to Optimization & Linear Programming 1. If an LP model has more than one optimal solution it has an infinite number of alternate optimal solutions. In Figure 2.8, the two extreme points at (122, 78) and (174, 0) are alternate optimal solutions, but there are an infinite number of alternate optimal solutions along the edge connecting these extreme points. This is true of all LP models with alternate optimal solutions. 2. There is no guarantee that the optimal solution
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there are three soldiers watching for the enemy. Soldier 1 spots something out of the corner of his eye he looks over and it is a 13 foot tall hairy beast. That has 3 inch nails that could rip through a deer. He nudges the soldier that is beside him and says “There is something over there take your rifle and scope it in and see what it is,” the second soldier has a sniper rifle he aims it at the beast and fires. The soldier missed, but just by a few inches. The creature runs off into the woods after
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burgundy towels will match their bath mats. It’s just one more bit of evidence that America has been in a cocooning mood the past few years. And few people have benefited more from this nest-building trend than Leonard Feinstein and Warren Eisenberg, who founded Bed Bath & Beyond in Springfield, N.J., back in 1971. After 14 fairly sluggish years in the business, the duo in 1985 started experimenting with large stores, running to 20,000 square feet and stacked to the ceiling with towels, curtains
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FERNS OF PAKISTAN | FERNS | SUBMINTED TO: Ma’M UZMA HANIFSUBMITTED BY: AYESHA SULTANAROLL NO: 072-BH-BOT-11SUBJECT: VASCULAER PLANTSDEPARTMENT: BOTANYGOVERNMENT COLLEGE UNIVERSITY LAHORE | | CONTENT: * INTRODUCTION TO FERNS * PARTS OF FERNS AND THEIR NAMES * LIFE CYCLE * LIFE CYCLE OF A TYPICAL FERN * CLASSIFICATION OF FERNS * A CONTRIBUTION TO THE TAXONOMIC STUDY OF FERN * FLORA OF PUNJAB, PAKISTAN * Family: Dennstaedtiaceae * Family: Sinopteridaceae
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animals. If there is a lost pup many of them would take them in but some of them will not in some cases they hurt the pup. Wolfs are Canines [Dog family]. Gray wolfs have long and bushy tails. There coat color is a brown, grey, and white colored fur. Some people say that they kind of look like a German shepherd. Grey wolfs are much bigger in the North then in the south. The average wolfs body size is 3-5 feet long. Female weigh 60-100pounds pounds. And Male wolfs weigh 70-145 pounds. Grey Wolfs are
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strong, independently run, country-based organizations in the UK, Germany, and France. Amazon International, comprising Amazon Europe and Amazon Japan, now represented 35% of Amazon revenues and was the fastest growing segment of the company (see Exhibit 1). To sustain its growth, Amazon Europe faced multiple expansion options: it could replicate the broad array of product lines Amazon offered in the US, launch new Marketplace1 activities, or expand into other European countries. In addition, Amazon Europe
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND The terms less-than-lethal, less lethal, and non-lethal are frequently and inappropriately used interchangeably. Almost anything can become lethal if used improperly or if circumstances are extremely unlucky; weapons that are considered to be of Non-Lethal force only decrease the odds of deadly injury. The court addresses the use of less lethal force in the “objective reasonableness standard,” where questions regarding excessive use of force are to be
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1989, Arnold Palmer Hospital is one of the largest hospitals for women and children in the U.S., with 431 beds in two facilities totaling 676,000 square feet. Located in downtown Orlando, Florida, and named after its famed golf benefactor, the hospital, with more than 2,000 employees serves an 18- county area in central Florida and is the only Level 1 trauma center for children in that region. Arnold Palmer Hospital provides a broad range of medical services including neonatal and pediatric intensive
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