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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...

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...

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...

AIDS: What is Means to Ohio

all susceptible to being infected with this devastating disease. Unfortunately, in fact, HIV infections are increasing among all ...

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...

Criminal Justice Issues

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

MEXICO, ECONOMIC STATISTICS & GROWTH DIAGNOSTICS

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...

Regression Analysis Using Health Statistics

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...

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...

Implications of X26 Tasers in Excited Delirium Deaths

this case reveals how X26 Tasers are being implicated in deaths attributed to excited delirium. Is this implication justified? F...

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...

Retaining Human Capital

of commitment when they know what is going in the company (Risher, 2007). Similarly, DeMarco (2007) also substantiates the importa...

Plastic Surgery

plastic surgery as a cultural phenomenon, that is, why people choose to have elective surgery. Types of plastic surgery It is a ...

Hispanics in the United States

that there are bilingual pamphlets created by government and in fact many products contain both English and Spanish, but in viewin...

Trends and Statistics on Drug Use

and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...

Justice for All or Just for Some?

and 1.2% of non-Hispanic whites. This paper examines some of the factors that may account for the disproportional representation o...

Justice for All or Just for Some?

and 1.2% of non-Hispanic whites. This paper examines some of the factors that may account for the disproportional representation o...

KENYA, THE U.S. AND NEW YORK CENSUS INFORMATION

women 406 per 1,000 women Teen-Age Births 45.3 per 1,000 (2002) 91 per 1,000 (2005) Infant Mortality Rate 5.8 per 1,000 live birth...

Use of Statistics

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...

HOUSING MARKET, STATISTICS AND FUTURE PREDICTIONS

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 ...

Statistics and the Field of Accounting

Green visit www.paperwriters.com/aftersale.htm for more information on using this paper properly April, 2010 As time goes on...

Karl Pearson and His Contributions to Statistics

of information to the field of statistics. Pearson was the one who came up with the concept chi-square and standard deviation for ...

High School Graduation Rates and Implications for Cultural Concerns in the United States, China, and South Africa

Abstract: High school dropout rates remain a vital concern in many parts of the world. This is by no means a problem confined to...

Pregnant Teens

discusses three aspects of teen pregnancy: statistics indicating how often it occurs; the effect of such pregnancy on the teenager...

Statistics in Business Decisions

null hypothesis and if they has to be rejected we will accept the hypothesis with the use of statistical analysis (Curwin and Slat...