instrument, research environment or locale of the study and analysis of the data gathered. Research Design Descriptive research is used in the study and defined as a description, recording, analysis and interpretation of the presented data. This type of research is the most commonly used and the basic reason for carrying out descriptive research is to identify the cause of something that is happening (DJS Research Ltd, 2010). Descriptive research can be either quantitative or qualitative. It
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statistics as “The science of collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting data to assist in making more effective decisions” (p.5). Types and levels of statistics There are two major types of statistics, descriptive and inferential. Descriptive statistics is defined by Lind (2011) as “methods of organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in an informative way” (p.6). An example of descriptive statistics would be a high school report showing that it had 300 graduates in 1990 and
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Statistics-the language of data Statistic is to data as French is to language of the French. A solid understanding of statistics provides you with tools to react intelligently to information that you read or hear. Finally, an important ingredient of a well-executed statistical analysis is to clearly communicate numerical information into written language. Descriptive statistics refers to the summary of important aspects of a data set. This includes collecting data, organizing the data, and then presenting
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What I’ve Learned about Statistics Statistics is all around us that, in fact, it would be difficult to go through the day without being flooded with some sort of statistics or statistical information. It is so commonly used in everyday conversations – be it regarding customer surveys, weather forecasts, political polls, or sports statistics – that we find it difficult to differentiate flawed from actual valid claims. So many times we hear “9 out of 10 says…” or “99 percent of the people” that
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Analysis of Newspaper Research Report Sandra Nelson HCS/438 10/24.2011 Dr. Jill Wiseberg Analysis of Newspaper Research Report This paper will give an analysis of statistical study involving the eating disorders of teens. Eating disorders are more widespread in teens than formally thought, and has had a devastating effect on their lives, a study for the Archives of General Psychiatry revealed the widespread disorder and behaviors in 10,123 teenagers between the age of 13and 18. The study
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H1: The difference in YouTube views (DV) is based on the gender of the artist (IV). Part 2: Literature Review Literature Review This article formulates the understanding that when comparing two populations of vast amounts data its statistical study can be supported by the central limit theorem (Tsung-Shan, 2003). Robust statistics is a convenient way of determining a central tendency and its dispersion; it also
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Scenario “Lam Company Limited” (Task 1) 1. Identify and analyse the business problem at Lam Limited Business analysis is a research discipline of identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems. Solutions often include a systems development component, but may also consist of process improvement, organizational change or strategic planning and policy development. The first step to analyse a problem is, to describe the problem as short as possible and list all factors
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by Malaysian companies using the emergent stakeholder theory. Methodology/approach: The paper provides an illustration of how the descriptive, exploratory and explanatory type of research is entrenched with the objectives of the research and how the combination of quantitative (statistical regression and weighting/mean ranking) and qualitative (archival analysis, qualitative interviews) methods may enhance accounting research not only from results that corroborate. Findings: The three-fold
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scaling techniques 7. Data collection methods and techniques 8. Testing of hypotheses 9. Statistical techniques for processing & analysis of data 10. Analysis, interpretation and drawing inferences 11. Report writing M S Sridhar, ISRO 1. Significance of research design 2. Meaning & process of design / plan 3. Writing the plan (protocol) 4. Contents of the plan (protocol) 5. Qualities of good research design 6. Choice of research topic, method/ approach and methods of data collection 7. Types of
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CHAPTER 3 Methodology A.Research Design: In order to gather the necessary data, the researchers used descriptive method. It includes techniques that are used to summarize and describe numerical data for the purpose of easier interpretation . A survey was administered to 38 students from the Philippine Women's College of Davao , Grade 10 Probity. It is an important tool for collecting and analyzing information from selected individuals. B. Research Instrument The researchers designed a questionnaire
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