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Statistical Testing

The t-test gives as a score of 1.5691772 and the p-value (which is a probability value) is 0.074085. From this result there is a s...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

Urban Black Male Adolescents

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

A Probation Officer's View Of Effectiveness

OF EFFECTIVENESS The new evaluation format proposes the following theories: 1) use recidivism statistics as a guide to improvemen...

Epidemiology; Intravenous Drug Users in New York

users were admitted, which made up 0.2% of all the relevant admissions and cocaine users, (no smoked) had 12,876 admissions, makin...

Arson in New Jersey: A County Analysis

Arson is not handled typically in any jurisdiction. Sometimes, firefighters will be involved where in some jurisdictions, police s...

Poverty in Arkansas

Poverty is widespread in Arkansas, but there are pockets of poverty that are worth exploring. There are also areas where poverty i...

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

British Virgin Islands Tourism 2004 - 2005

the use of quantitative data taken the British Virgin Islands Governments web site where different economic statistics are present...

The Street Youth of Canada

younger end of the spectrum, of this population, sees more girls than boys ("Homeless Youth in Canada," 2006). In all, approximate...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

Fair Trade In The United Kingdom

items (Oxfam, 2007). In 2005, "Oxfam sold ?3.4 million worth of Fairtrade food" (Oxfam, 2007). These included a vast assortment of...

Diabetes in America

the pancreas do not produce enough insulin in order to meet the bodys needs, and this is in part attributable to the acquired decr...

High School Dropouts/North Toledo, OH

average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...

No Child Left behind; Data Analysis, Discussion and Recommendations

attainment figures. It is also notable that after a period of improvements the last few years, 2003 - 2005 appear to have...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Procrastination and GPA

health when deadlines are far off" (Chu and Choi, 2005, p. 245). On the other hand, the Tice and Baumeister study also reported th...

The Problem of Poverty: A Look at Santa Rosa, Florida

11.9%(2004) ("Santa Rosa County," 2008). * There is less poverty in Santa Rosa County than in Florida overall. * Yet, clos...

An Analysis of Crime Statistics (1968 through 2008)

an interesting tale, but the data must be reviewed in concert with economic and social trends that affect the nation overall. Some...

Paranoia and Schizophrenia

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

6 Questions on General Statistics

Statistics Textbook, 2003). After compiling the information, the agent then could test to "see whether and how these measures rel...

Adult Literacy and Early Development of Language

In fourteen pages early literacy and language development are considered in terms of adult literacy, the policy of Welfare to Work...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

Elementary Students and Alternative Assessments

are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultur...

An Overview of Ronald Reagan's 1980 Climb to the Presidency

In this four page paper the writer ourlines the key elements that propelled Ronald Reagan to the U.S. presidency. Details are pro...

Overview of the Florida Department of Children and Families

to be done to improve various perceived problems. Unfortunately, it must be said, that from what one can tell, the report is very ...

6 Questions on Calculations and Statistics II

was close to the middle of the distribution; and that values for 8, 9, 10 and 11 hours were higher than those for 3, 4, 5 and 6 ho...

Latin America to Ontario, Canada Migration

or region (University of Calgary, 2004). Trends in Toronto According to Bourne (1999), Toronto seems to be a magnet for im...