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USING BAYESIAN THEORY TO DETERMINE A POTENTIAL OUTCOME

of a hurricane occurring to any degree of accuracy). The theorem helps us better understand what were up against and tries to elim...

Life and Theoretical Contributions of Pierre de Fermat

the work of Apollonius concerning plane loci (Ball Fermat.html). In his youth, Fermat was friends with the French scientis...

International Politics and Issues of Importance

ensure that it survives and operates properly.4 A stable democracy has two sides: "the constitutional aspect, which provides the r...

Operations Management Calculations

too long to make an analysis of it viable when undertaking all the other tasks of everyday life and setting up a business. When ...

Risk Management Questions

the frequency of unexpected accidents or incidences, such as type blowouts and incidences of air range in passengers. Knowing the ...

Using Probability to Help with Decisions under Uncertainty

to evaluate collective costs. The calculation will need input that is representative of the physical results of the current action...

The Use of Statistical Analysis to Cut Costs

these past sales statistics to give an indication on the potential for a sale to be lost because the delivery cannot take place on...

Forecasting Stock Needs using Statistics

the same general trend will be seen, this is usually performed using the ordinary least squares (OLS) method (McCullagh and Nelder...

Third Cycle Investment Recommendation for Aquine

chance that the watch will pass the certification. This is a doubling of the chances of failure from 1 in 3 to 2 in 3, and as such...

The Echelon Surveillance System

United States, pursuant to various treaties" ("NSA Watch: Echelon FAQ," n.d.). It is easy to see that well-known global intelligen...

Decisions Influencing Home Ownership

demand the process for the homes on the market has also increased and constrained the buyers in terms of affordability (Nellis and...

Business Decisions and Statistical Analysis

it is often necessary for organizations to make decisions in the absence of certainty. Practically speaking, certainty is almost t...

Problems in Probability and Statistics

middle value out of the set, which in this case is 2. Median = 2 Other useful statistical calculations that can be performed upo...

Sex Survey Statistical Analysis

analysis show to be untrue. Using linear regression and correlation, one can see that some of the numbers given in Ms. Smiths ar...

A Probability Overview

small plane will crash than a large jet. Traveling by jet is seen as inconsequential. One can in fact look at people and make a ...

The Impact of the Inflation Statement Of May, 2003

to hear its prognostication for the near future (Gosselin, 2003), indicating how "the Fed would be forced into deflation-fighting ...

Personal Probability and the Influences of Psychology

18 and 50, who have demonstrated a willingness to participate. The surveys will be collected over a two week period in order to g...

Questions on Inventory and Supply Chain Management

(CSR). Formerly little more than the means of getting goods from one place to another, logistics management has the ability to pl...

Probability Interpretations

In eight pages the probability interpretations of propensity, subjective, and logical are evaluated with the inclusion of philosop...

UK Value Determinants and Long Term Life Insurance and Short Term General Insurance

limited guarantees. The Financial Times (3/3/99) reported that when Norwich Union bought London & Edinburgh in October of 1...

A Streetcar Named Desire Film by Elia Kazan

is still a little to doubt that the cover up of her impending death is just not another part of her overall facade. Yet, because ...

Qualitative Research Methodology, Probability Sampling, and Schedule Construction

In five pages this paper examines qualitative research's 4 designs in an assessment of reliability and validity of probability sam...

Planetary Intelligent Forms of Life Probability

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the real planetary probability of other planets containing intelligent forms of li...

History and Political Ramifications of Kosovo

In six pages this paper discusses the present political status of Kosovo in a consideration of the region's history, Albanian and ...

Sampling and Probability

be to suppose an outcome or event (A) occurs f times in n observations, then the concept of probability of the event A would be an...

Real World Application of Inferential Tests

seventy-nine percent for those who did not work out. This would reduce the inferences to only two possible choices: Exercising in ...

Investment Risk

the potential of the company. In addition to the financial performance measured by ratios such as profit margins, the investors wi...

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...

Carstab Chemical Manufacturer's Quantitative Approaches

it also has direct applicability to daily life and business. Indeed, the entire management school exemplified by Total Quality Ma...

Decision Making Under Uncertainty; Case Study

large capacity option, as this has the potential, with a string demand of creating 50 million dollars of profit. This may be seen ...