* Difference between individuals and variables * Difference between categorical and quantitative variables * Displaying distributions (pie charts, bar graphs, histograms, stem-and-leaf plots, time plots) * Shapes of data (e.g., symmetric vs. assymetric) * Definition of outliers Chapter 2: * Numerical summaries (mean, median, range, quartiles, variance, standard deviation) * Properties of numerical summaries (e.g., resistance) * Boxplots * Calculating numerical summaries
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According to Erikson I would be bordering on Identity VS Role Confusion and Intimacy VS Isolation because I’m just leaving Identity VS Role Confusion and entering Intimacy VS Isolation. And I agree, I don’t think I fit into just one of them, I’m still figuring out how I fit into society, while I’m also figuring out how to balance my social life, career, and whether I should move out of my parents house.
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Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner focuses on our economy and the study of incentives. The two authors discuss comparisons that seem so foreign such as “What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?” and “How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents?” Questions like these stir up the novel and essentially unravel the untold stories of life and consumption. Core economic principals are discovered within each story of the book. The title Freakonomics in
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Chapter 1 1. Ideas for beyond the final exam a. How much does it really cost? i. Opportunity Costs 1. Value of the next best alternative that must be given up because of that decision. 2. Economists say that the true cost of such decisions are not the number of dollars spend on the computer, new equipment, or military, but rather the VALUE OF WHAT MUST BE GIVEN UP TO ACQUIRE THEM. 3. EXAMPLE- cost of college is more expensive add the money
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Project Part C AJ Department Stores Understanding many variables and also understanding the correlation between them we need to do a correlation analysis and also to get a deeper understanding in what really affects the credit balances in AJ department stores we need to do a regression analysis to help us get to 100% confidence in making the right decisions. We did a scatter plot to help us understand the relationship between credit balance and size and we found that we can see there
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2014 Biology 101, section 11 Dr. Hannes A Reply Letter for Dear Aunt Dear Aunt. How have you been? I am now taking biology 101, hopefully, I can clear out some of your confusions regarding to high fructose corn syrup vs. table sugar with my so called highly scientifically literate brain. The high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) was introduced in 1957 by scientists in a short report. According to the article Sweet Confusion (Beil 2014), two chemists Richard Marshall and
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london.edu www3.babson.edu/eship/aboutblank/ How/When to Use This case deals with the concept of causal studies vs. descriptive studies and what needs to be included in the research design of each study type. It also deals with what constitutes control in research design; in this context it is best used with chapters 6-9. This is also a great case to use to discuss constructs vs. concepts (Chapter 3), as Exhibit C-GEM-1.1 clearly has struggled with defining numerous constructs and multiple-measurement
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PERSONALITY Psychoanalytic Freud’s psychosexual theory Structure: id (pleasure principle), ego (reality principle), superego (morals, ideals) Levels of awareness: conscious, preconscious, unconscious Development: oral, anal, phallic (Oedipal complex, penis envy), latency, genital Fixations Defense mechanisms - reduce anxiety Repression (primary) Regression Reaction formation Rationalization Displacement Sublimation Projection Denial Neo-Freudians Adler—social, not sexual tensions * Birth order
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Chapter 1: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science Textbook: i. The Need for Psychological Science a) Did We Know It All Along? Hindsight Bias i. Hindsight bias = Something has happened makes it seem inevitable ii. Not because common sense is usually wrong, but because common sense more easily describes what has happened than what will happen b) Overconfidence iii. We tend to think we know more than we do c) The Scientific Attitude
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PROGRAMME STRUCTURE FOR ISBE (PG) |S No |Subject |Credit | |1. |Business Statistics |3 | |2. |Operations & Optimization Research |3 | |3. |Economics
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