YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Problem with Statistics
Essays 151 - 180
The mode calculates the statistic that occurs the most often, and therefore can be considered the most representative number. If w...
In five pages this paper examines how statistics regarding infant mortality can be manipulated in order to satisfy particular agen...
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...
groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...
an interesting tale, but the data must be reviewed in concert with economic and social trends that affect the nation overall. Some...
within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...
The authors note that the main problem with this is the impression that any reform is better than no reform at all -- and the deep...
proportion of the population in a country which are living to between the ages of 17 years and 80 years. The data, and the data ta...
in Alaska with puppy growth in New York (Correlation does not equal Causation, n.d.). If tracking both over the course of several...
lunch, on average, 5.9 times a week and they eat breakfast 3.4 times a wee, this means that there are more lunches eaten by the ma...
the impact that things had on the economy early in the twentieth century. Hence, in looking at todays world, where the economy is ...
throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...
literature and through observation, regarding the central premises of James hypothesis. Comparative views of smiling can be ass...
the center. These time records should include originating time; elapsed time between stages of the process of treating the patien...
Table 1, the largest single group was women who have been with the company less than 2 years, followed by men who have been with t...
data from fewer sources whereas quantitative data will lack depth but come form a wider sample (Dancey and Reidy, 2003). In the ...
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...
However, even in a growth industry there is the need for any company to compete. Michael Porter has identified two sources of comp...
3, 13, 9, 8, 7, 7, 10, 4, 15, 3, 5, 6, 9, 7, 10, 6. The resulting frequency table follows. The...
middle class is actually doing pretty good and that the increase in alarming statistics is due to the continuing wave of low-inco...
produce equal halves about the central point (Electronic Statistics Textbook, 2003). Unimodal distribution. A distribution...
Statistics Textbook, 2003). After compiling the information, the agent then could test to "see whether and how these measures rel...
control is the means by which manufacturers achieve that end. Probability can add a measure of confidence to decision making that...
second comprising twenty-one percent. Part-time college and university degree programs, in turn, comprised only five percent of a...
This 3 page paper looks at what economic indicators may be useful for Black and Decker and discusses what they might mean for the ...
are required under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and the Pollution Prevention Act to report annually to E...
of a few areas of practice. Because the elderly population is growing so fast, those trained in geropsychology may have less chall...
9). A resumes collegiate or university records information can also reveal how honest or dishonest the the job seeker is. If the...
2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...
in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...