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Statistics in Surgical ICU

within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...

Black and Decker and the Use of Leading Indicators

This 3 page paper looks at what economic indicators may be useful for Black and Decker and discusses what they might mean for the ...

BREAST CANCER -- MICHIGAN

Wisdom, 2004). Between 1990 and 2000, breast cancers diagnosed earlier (thus leading to a higher survival rate), increase...

Medical Coders

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

Accountants and Auditors

of Labor Statistics, 2007). The education needed for such a career can be relatively simple, such as taking courses to get a cer...

African Americans in the Legal Profession

to increase number of African American lawyers and judges," 2008). This is true even though the African American population is sli...

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...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Social Security Versus The American Dream

public transportation or carpooling with friends. To fill up the tank of this older model, low mileage car costs $75. Moreover, ...

Conducting Drug-Use Research/Texas Prisoners

first institution listed in regards to male offenders, which is the James V. Allred prison unit, located just outside of Wichita F...

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...

Harrison-Keyes Project Risk Management Plan and Defense

cost effective and potentially profitable. The development of the e-book format can be seen as an extension of the way that many ...

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...

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...

Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Key Points

2001 findings, with 43% black and 55% white juveniles arrested for violent crimes when the overall juvenile population that year r...

19th Century Boston, Crime, and Punishment

in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...

Pittsburgh VA Heathcare and Uninsured

provided by the veterans administration (Medicine News, 2007). Nearly 13 percent of all veterans fall under the ban to services pe...

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...

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 ...

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...