1 NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA COURSE CODE : DAM 205 COURSE TITLE: DATA COLLECTION METHODOLOGY 2 COURSE GUIDE COURSE CODE DAM 205 COURSE TITLE DATA COLLECTION METHODOLOGY COURSE WRITER: MRS. AISHETU UMAR DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIA DR. OLUSEGUN FOLORUNSHO DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, ABEOKUTA, NIGERAI. COURSE EDITOR PROGRAMME LEADER COURSE COORDINATOR 3 CONTENTS CONTENTS Page Introduction . . . . . . . .
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PERCENTAGES: THE MOST USEFUL STATISTICS EVER INVENTED Thomas R. Knapp © 2010 "Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen “Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.” - Yogi Berra "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison Preface You know what a percentage is. 2 out of 4 is 50%. 3 is 25% of 12. Etc. But do you
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Address: s/bf-HSG, Rosenbergstrasse 52, CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland. E-mail: Paul.Soderlind@unisg.ch. Document name: Fin1MiQEFAll.TeX Contents 1 Mean-Variance Frontier 1.1 Portfolio Return: Mean, Variance, and the Effect of Diversification 1.2 Mean-Variance Frontier of Risky Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Mean-Variance Frontier of Riskfree and Risky Assets . . . . . . . 1.4 Examples of Portfolio Weights from MV Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 9
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The yields of crops in per hectare are low in Bangladesh compare to other countries. The farm prices of produces also low which turn in low income from farm and low purchasing power and low access to food. On the other hand, raising food price is a major concerning issue for the government of Bangladesh. For the stable food price and food, security government has adopted various strategies such as efforts to increase production, intervention in markets, public distribution, direct sales, increase
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Foundations of Machine Learning Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning Thomas Dietterich, Editor Christopher Bishop, David Heckerman, Michael Jordan, and Michael Kearns, Associate Editors A complete list of books published in The Adaptive Computations and Machine Learning series appears at the back of this book. Foundations of Machine Learning Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh, and Ameet Talwalkar The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England c 2012 Massachusetts Institute
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woman is 5’4” and weighs 140 pounds, while the average American model is 5’11” and weighs 117 pounds. Annually, magazine companies spend billions of dollars on diet and exercise advertisements to put in their magazines. Magazines sell body dissatisfaction to their readers through unrealistic images of women, as well as dieting and exercise information. Thirty years ago, Marilyn Monroe, a size 14, had the “ideal” body shape and size, but today’s standard is much smaller. As the beauty ideal continues to
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philosophical stances in objectivism and positivism and deductive theory was used to approach the subject. From the theoretical framework, five hypotheses were established and statistically tested in order to answer our research question. The first hypothesis was formulated to confirm previous research, while the remaining two aimed at providing both a theoretical and practical contribution to existing knowledge. The thesis centers on the Cash Conversion Cycle, a metric of how fast a company turns
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theoretical and practical knowledge. As the classroom discussion alone cannot make a student perfect in handling the real situation, it is an opportunity for the students to know the real life situation through this program. The report on “Performance Analysis of Grameen Bank (GB), BRAC and ASA as MFI.” is prepared by Md. Jasim Uddin under the supervision and guidance of Muhammad Mujibul Kabir, Professor, Department of Finance, University of Dhaka and shubashish Barua, researcher, InM to meet the requirement
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2008 CFA Level 1 － Mock Exam 1 （AM）模考试题 Q1-5 Question 1 Accepting an incentive offered by a client to a portfolio manager, such as a free vacation or a cash bonus, to reward good performance in a future period is: A) a violation of the Standards. B) not a violation of the Standards as long as client confidentiality is maintained. C) a violation of the Standards unless the manager gets written consent from her employer. D) not a violation of the Standards as long as the manager
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Academy of Management Journal 2006, Vol. 49, No. 5, 894–917. WHEN DOES TRUST MATTER TO ALLIANCE PERFORMANCE? REKHA KRISHNAN Simon Fraser University XAVIER MARTIN NIELS G. NOORDERHAVEN Tilburg University We examine how uncertainty moderates the trust-performance relationship in alliances, building on the distinction between behavioral uncertainty, which relates to anticipating and understanding partners’ actions, and externally caused environmental uncertainty. We argue that trust matters more
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