YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Problem with Statistics
Essays 151 - 180
Act. The data re for the school year 1998-1999 and reflect the percentage per 1,000 students. The data is from the U.S. Department...
a laptop can be a wise investment. However, there is always the possibility that the cost of insurance could outweigh the benefits...
came from the "1991 trade liberalization" experience in India which generated losses in tariff protection for employers and brough...
At times, the use of a dual approach to research, including both quantitative and qualitative methods, can provide a basis for exp...
itself flawed, such that no matter how many tests are performed, the same inaccuracies will be repeated (Sommer, 2010). This can b...
the business. Otherwise, it could impact sales margins. For example, if a statistician attempts to conduct a statistical analysis ...
a rise in one variable being perfectly equal to a rise in the other variable would be a linear correlation, while changes in varia...
determine that the government is able to invest resources into the development of those new energy technologies which will yield s...
how much money is being dedicated to these expenses over a period of time, then decide, based on those figures, where to cut back....
second goal is to estimate, forecast or predict what might happen in the future. Inferential statistics always uses a sample or ...
crime. No force is used. Rather, the burglar enters a premises, or even merely trespasses on property, and takes what he likes. S...
the center. These time records should include originating time; elapsed time between stages of the process of treating the patien...
middle class is actually doing pretty good and that the increase in alarming statistics is due to the continuing wave of low-inco...
However, even in a growth industry there is the need for any company to compete. Michael Porter has identified two sources of comp...
produce equal halves about the central point (Electronic Statistics Textbook, 2003). Unimodal distribution. A distribution...
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...
3, 13, 9, 8, 7, 7, 10, 4, 15, 3, 5, 6, 9, 7, 10, 6. The resulting frequency table follows. The...
control is the means by which manufacturers achieve that end. Probability can add a measure of confidence to decision making that...
Statistics Textbook, 2003). After compiling the information, the agent then could test to "see whether and how these measures rel...
and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...
psychological research" (Greene and Oliveira, 2006, p.3). And the aim of psychological research is to "test psychological theories...
there are two degrees of freedom, so using the table below we can see we need to reject the null hypothesis, with an Alpha of 0.00...
of supply, in other words, how many months it will take to work through the current supply of homes. This is a statistic that has ...
also point out that "developed countries may not be well served by international nurse recruitment if it prevents them from addres...
structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...
more male members than female (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). * Of Whites, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos and Blacks, Blacks are m...
and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...
costs in 2004 in Indonesia are 35 percent higher than they were in 1996 but there is no commensurate increase in productivity (Gue...
because of domestic violence. According to the FBI, thats about 1,400 a year - with most of those killings occurring by what NOW d...
in other countries (2000). Simply put, a budget deficit exists when spending exceeds revenue (Wikipedia,, 2005). In 2003, 47 pe...