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Statistical Research Project on Rates of Infant Mortality

of 7.2 (deaths) per 1,000 live births, a rate comparable to countries like Cuba (8.0), Slovakia (9.9) and Kuwait (11.5) (March of ...

Examination of Breast Cancer

& Estrin, 2003). However, a core biopsy or incisional biopsy is when just a small part of the tissue is used ( Pfeuffer & Estrin, ...

Heart Disease and the Role of Cholesterol

cholesterol has been believed to be a correlate in heart disease for several decades. In a February 1990 "American Family Physici...

Treatment and Adolescent Depression

2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...

Sex Offender Proposed Methodology Study

study will involve three groups of between 6 and 8 sex offenders. The student researching this topic should note that, ideally, th...

Student Posed Questions on Statistical Errors

of the situation. For example, where there are personal points of view to be questioned and there are fears that the answers may b...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

Chapters 4 and 5

In these and all other charts highlighting test scores over time for the after school group, the scores for two years...

Statistical Analysis Simulation

services they buy and use. In all cases there is the need to determine the target of the research and use a sample that is a fully...

Forecasting

such as influences in the demand for the goods which may include macro economic factors such as expected disposable income level m...

Statistics Interpreted

lunch, on average, 5.9 times a week and they eat breakfast 3.4 times a wee, this means that there are more lunches eaten by the ma...

Research Methods

analysed as it is in-depth data that is created so that the use of existing theory may be extended and used to explain the results...

Interracial Relationships

level of mixed race dating and marriage. A recent study from Pew Research Center (2006), for example, revealed that 22 percent of ...

British Virgin Islands Tourism 2004 - 2005

the use of quantitative data taken the British Virgin Islands Governments web site where different economic statistics are present...

The Disappearing Middle Class

getting into debt, and he could look forward to a secure and comfortable retirement" (p. D8). That is no longer true, only the wea...

Poverty : Causes And Effects

the five states with the highest rates of poverty were New Mexico, Arkansas, West Virginia, Louisiana and Texas (Rodgers, Payne an...

Overrepresentation Of Minorities In Special Education

typically live in poor neighborhoods, which means their neighborhood schools will be mostly populated with other poor students. Ba...

Article Critique/Dating Study

previously tested instrument, indicates that issues of validity and reliability were also adequately addressed. The results are ...

Impact Of Globalization On Universities

in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States hold their classes in English (Altbach, 2004). What is...

Controlling Asthma

Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...

Effects Of Violence In Media

affect the viewer (Lavers, 2002). In other words, the viewer has little or no emotional reaction to the violent acts they are view...

Multiagency Intervention To Reduce Gang Activities

of these facets of the state have emerged over hundreds of years of history (Rodriguez, 2005). These events have all contributed t...

The Under Representation Ethnic Minority Students in College Attendance Figures

a lower proportional number of collage degrees than countries where there is an average or lower than average ethnic population. ...

Intervention and Teenage Pregnancy

needs to be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnanci...

Cluster Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, and Factor Analysis

"the feasibility of bringing new generic drugs to market" (Innovating Opportunities, n.d.). Email to Upper Management Facto...

Statistical Analysis and Alpha Use

The statistical conclusion validity of a study measures the exact amount of validity shown by the test in a given situation. A te...

Texas Crime and Minorities

in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...

Questions on Statistics Topics Answered

79, 78, 50, 80, 98, 88, 79, 71, 57, 81, 41, 65, 50, 71, 91, 75, 60, 79, 79, 71, 65, 85, 64 for the following questions. Mean 71.88...

Eleven Multiple Choice Statistical Questions Answered II

5. Variance of values in #1 "A data series like 1, 2, 3, 6 has a mean equal to (1+2+3+6)/4=3. The differences...

21st Century United States and Hunger

are expensive. Born to the wrong parents, some children end up with little to eat because their struggling mothers and fathers do ...