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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Statistical Analysis of the S.S. Titanic

journey to the United States. One problem is that the passenger and crew lists have been inaccurate due to misspellings and inaccu...

Expanded Paper on Technology Impact on Jobs and Perceptions of Employees

below this mark in an emerging market. An emerging market is "a country making an effort to change and improve its economy ...

Assessiing Chlamydia and Intervention Options

and treatments which are necessitated by the venereal disease Chlamydia. The venereal disease Chlamydia presents a number o...

Importance of Mathematics and Statistics in Business

The mode calculates the statistic that occurs the most often, and therefore can be considered the most representative number. If w...

America and Child Abuse

to mothers drowning their own children for convenience. Society must care for its children. There is a need for the government ...

Chicago Veterans Attitudes and Characteristics

and 3,190 were interred in Illinois seven national cemeteries (Veterans Administration, 2003). This, of course is a small percenta...

Pathology and Treatment of Liver Cancer

Cancer, 2003). Of course the disease is serious, but it is potentially curable with the surgical intervention not accessible to m...

Domestic Market Challenges of GM

2002 (General Motors, 2003). Car sales declined by 6 percent and truck sales declined by 8 percent as compared to October 2002 sal...

Canadian Income Gender Gap

pay ratio would be 100 percent, if women earn less, the ratio is less than 100 percent and if they earn more, the ratio would be ...

Statistical Analysis Analyzed

to quantify and compare the sizes of differences between them" (Electronic Statistics Textbook, 2003). The interval scale allows ...

Child Labor Practices in Asia

child population) as opposed to 80 million in Africa (40 percent of the total African child population) and 17.5 million in Latin ...

Native Americans and the Effects of Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association (2003) reports that individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease a...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

South Africa and Tuberculosis

significant need for labour in this industry; this contributed to the massive expansion in respect to the urban African populatio...

Opportunities Provided by eBusiness

businesses with "new ways of organizing production and transacting business" (Laudon and Travor, nd). E-commerce is not restricted...

Nutrition and Children

* Child poverty is highest among black families, 30 percent, then, among Hispanic families, 29 percent; it is 13 percent among whi...

Differential Treatment of Women Laborers in Canada

the general population somewhat who still categorize some professions as "female" (such as teaching) and some as "male" (such as t...

Website Usage Statistically Analyzed

to quantify and compare the sizes of differences between them" (Electronic Statistics Textbook, 2003). The interval scale allows ...

Overview of Tampa, Florida

drops to lower levels making outdoor activities much more enjoyable. The temperatures range from the seventies to the nineties. Hu...

Answers to Questions About Business Statistics 2

set. Discrete data involves different sets. What are the advantages of putting raw data into an array? What information can be...