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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 ...

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...

Pregnant Teens

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

The Medical and Ethical Considerations of Organ Transplant

The ability to transplant a human organ from one body to another is one of the...

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...

Anchorage Demographics and Economic Needs

Alaska faces many challenges in insuring that her citizens health and welfare. Many Alaskans are suffering with health problems b...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Health Promotion/Childhood Obesity

14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

BREAST CANCER -- MICHIGAN

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

Life-long Learning in Adult Education

second comprising twenty-one percent. Part-time college and university degree programs, in turn, comprised only five percent of a...

Psychology As A Career

of a few areas of practice. Because the elderly population is growing so fast, those trained in geropsychology may have less chall...

A Look at Burglary Statistics in New York City and Cincinnati

crime. No force is used. Rather, the burglar enters a premises, or even merely trespasses on property, and takes what he likes. S...

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 ...

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...

Research and Statistics in Psychology

psychological research" (Greene and Oliveira, 2006, p.3). And the aim of psychological research is to "test psychological theories...

Analysis of the HR 29 Mobile Medical Homeless Health Improvement Act

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the HR 29 Mobile Medical Homeless Health Improvement Act. Background details and stat...