Statistical Databases Jaideep Srivastava and Hung Q. Ngo, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 200 Union street, EE/CS Building, room 4-192, Minneapolis, MN 55455 e-mail: srivasta, hngo @cs.umn.edu, ¡ 1 Introduction A statistical database management system (SDBMS) is a database management system that can model, store and manipulate data in a manner well suited to the needs of users who want to perform statistical analyses on the data. Statistical databases have some special
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Week 5 Individual Assignment: Process Improvement Plan Justin Sciarro OPS 571 November 26, 2012 Barry Haigh Process Improvement Plan During week one the process of pulling patient room trash and linen was analyzed. The steps included the designing of a flowchart outlining the steps of the actual process, while identifying factors and metrics. The remainder of this paper will focus on process improvement as it relates to control limits and confidence intervals. Moving on, in this case, process
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Summer Road Trips: A Comparison of Younger & Older Drivers ------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction Summer is the best time to travel for many people as the weather gets warmer and children are finishing up the school year. With summer right around the corner, my wife and I have started to plan out the trips that we want to take. Though one of the trips will
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good news is that the decision rules for hypothesis testing that we learned last week are still exactly the same: Set #1: If the absolute value (ignore any negative sign) of the test statistic is greater than or equal to the critical value, then you reject the null. If the absolute value of the test statistic is less than the critical value, you do not reject the null. Set #2: If the p value is less than or equal to α, reject the null. If the p value is greater than α, do not reject the
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IEE 572 Term Project EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of the experiment is to analyze factors that affect the texture of the Rice. We chose to conduct the experiment with 4 factors which were thought to be the most important ones. Each factor is run at two levels so that the experiment is a 24 factorial design with two replicates. The experiment runs were randomized and the results were analyzed using Design Expert Software. This software helped us in identifying
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Childhood Obesity EC 315 Shane Martin Spring II 2012 Purpose Statement Childhood obesity is increasing worldwide. Experts estimate that 1 in 5 kids between the ages of 6 and 17 are overweight. That means that as they get older they will be more at risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart related diseases. Things that we used to associate with older people are now affecting younger and younger children. There are many reasons for this rise in obesity and this paper will
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accordingly. 1. How to create a new project? (1) Click on the ‘Start’ menu. Click on ‘All Programs’. (2) You will find the folder ‘Data Analysis and Stats Programs’ - click it to open the folder. (3) Click on the ‘IBM SPSS statistics’ folder. Click on the ‘IBM SPSS Statistics’ icon. (4) Once SPSS is open, the screen (see Fig. 1) asks you what you would like to do: either type in the data manually, or find an existing data file (as circled below). Figure 1: Create a New Project MKTG7510 Market
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mean, median and standard deviation for the ounces in the bottles I first imported the data in excel. After importing the data I use the Data analysis function where I choose descriptive statistics. Once choosing descriptive statistics I clicked ok and input my data range. Afterward I selected summary statistics and press OK. The forwarding data was provided; the mean equaling 14.87, median equaling 14.8, standard deviation equaling 0.550. To construct a ninety-five confidence interval for the ounces
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Enhancing EFL College Students' Speed Reading and Content Comprehension of Computerized Texts Osama Hassanein Sayed, PhD Community College in Bisha, King Khalid University, KSA, Faculty of Education in the New Valley, Assiut University, Egypt (2009) Paper puplished in CDELT Occasional Papers, Vol. 50, August, 2009. Abstract This study attempted to investigate the effect of training EFL college students in reading computerized texts on their reading speed and content comprehension. The study
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Life Changes Scaling For The 1990s Introduction * In this experiment, the purpose of it is to reduce all the error samples that were made in the original experiment created by Rahe and Holmes * The original research happened 3 decades ago * Social Readjustment Rating Scale is the creation of the original scaling study compromised with the Schedule of Recent Experience from the first questionnaire that collected the recent changes a person went through information Method *
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