future iPhone lineup, then the market share value will increase in the following quarter. | * What is your independent variable for this study? Why? * * The independent variable would be the new innovations Apple introduces to the future lineup because this is the variable Apple will have control of. * | * What is your dependent variable? Why? * * The dependent variable would be the market share value because this depends on the new innovations Apple introduces. * | *
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Stages of the Research Process Richa Taggart RES 351 Linda F Florence August 30, 15 Introduction The first article, “Do U.S State Laws Affect per Capita Wine Purchases?” reviewed the effects of U.S State laws on Wine purchases. The focus of this research was on states that have adopted laws pertaining to the production, distribution, and marketing and sale of alcoholic beverages. Evidence suggested that regulatory legislation may reduce wine sales so the research tested for difference in
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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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Levene’s Test-Used to test if equal variancesIf significant (<0.05)– use equal variances not assumed rowIf not significant (>0.05)– use equal variances assumed row | Dependent Variable = the variable in which we expect to see a changeIndependent Variable = The variable which we expect to have an effect on the dependent variable Example: There will be a statistically significant difference in graduation rates of at-risk high-school seniors who participate in an intensive study program as opposed
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ACE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT Affiliated to POKHARA UNIVERSITY CASE STUDY ON "Managing Motivation in a Difficult Economy" Prepared by Submitted to Raju Karki Shanker Raj Pandey Rama Satyal Ramesh KC Sandeep Amir Kansakar Sanjeev Shrestha THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Motivation is the process that accounts for an individual intensity, direction and persistence of efforts towards attaining a goal. It is the result of interaction between an individual and the situation. Motivated
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ACE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT Affiliated to POKHARA UNIVERSITY CASE STUDY ON "Managing Motivation in a Difficult Economy" Prepared by Submitted to Raju Karki Shanker Raj Pandey Rama Satyal Ramesh KC Sandeep Amir Kansakar Sanjeev Shrestha THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Motivation is the process that accounts for an individual intensity, direction and persistence of efforts towards attaining a goal. It is the result of interaction between an individual and the situation. Motivated
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BEHAVIOR OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES USERS’ STATISFACTION LEVEL A Research Developed in Fulfilling the Course Completion of Managerial Data Analysis by Daniel Vincent Hadikrisno December 2011 . STATEMENT BY THE AUTHOR I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and, to the best of my knowledge, contains no material previously published or written by another person. Jakarta, 18th of December 2011 ( Daniel Vincent Hadikrisno ) ABSTRACTION The main purpose of this
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contemporary South Africa embodies the characteristics of a cultural society in comparison to surviving practices and traditional beliefs. Theoretical framework of cultural sociology is best described as the importance of culture being seen an independent variable. Alexander (2003), emphasizes the importance of culture shaping society instead of culture being a product of society. He puts culture first and highlights that, “To believe in the possibility of a cultural sociology is to subscribe to the
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statistics help us make these determinations and allow us to generalize the results to a larger population. We provide background about parametric and nonparametric statistics and then show basic inferential statistics that examine associations among variables and tests of differences between groups. Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics In the world of statistics, distinctions are made in the types of analyses that can be used by the evaluator based on distribution assumptions and the levels of measurement
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tendency to underreport their output, a regression is utilized. A sample of 690 firms is chosen for this purpose. We choose the variable “% of Firms expressing that a typical Firm reports less than 100 % of sales” that may act as a proxy for this inclination as the dependent variable. Several other variables are chosen to explain this dependent variable. These explanatory variables are: the firm’s age, ownership (domestic/private), exporter (whether it exports its product or not), % of firms using the
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