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Using Marijuana and Its Psychological Impact

concentrating; it is also known that pot makes learning new information difficult ("Growing," 1989). Marijuana, like some other dr...

Lawsuits Against the Tobacco Industry

This 7 page paper discusses the relationship between tobacco use and the legal system, particularly with regard to underage smokin...

An Overview of Hepatitis C

an epidemic. More and more people are becoming infected with HCV, and it could reach epidemic proportions soon. Now is the time to...

A Model Analysis of Rent Controlled Properties

This 6 page paper discusses real property management and the methods of traditional assessment, including easily available statist...

Using a T-Test to Assess Data

The paper uses descriptive statistics and shows the use of hypothesis testing utilizing a two tailed t-test. The data provided ar...

Descriptive Statistic Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the analysis of descriptive statistics. Analysis of histograms is also carried out....

Correlations, ANOVA, and T-Tests

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at various statistical tests of significance. T-tests, ANOVA, and correlational statis...

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...

General Motors Expansion Forecast

in which General Motors engages, largely due to favorable market conditions and taxation structures that support such ventures in ...

Research and Statistics

At times, the use of a dual approach to research, including both quantitative and qualitative methods, can provide a basis for exp...

Demonstrating Pearson r Test

set of statements, with answers ranging from highly inaccurate to highly accurate, With seven potential answers the responses can ...

Problems in Probability and Statistics

middle value out of the set, which in this case is 2. Median = 2 Other useful statistical calculations that can be performed upo...

World Statistics on Child Labor

came from the "1991 trade liberalization" experience in India which generated losses in tariff protection for employers and brough...

The Influence of Unemployment on the US Economy

in 2011, which continues into 2012, with the April 2012 having an unemployment rate of 8.1%, but this increased to 8.2%. The pat...

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...

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...

Alpha Values and Inferential Statistics

itself flawed, such that no matter how many tests are performed, the same inaccuracies will be repeated (Sommer, 2010). This can b...

Sex and Renewable Energy Statistics

determine that the government is able to invest resources into the development of those new energy technologies which will yield s...

Statistical Misrepresentation

For instance, while the median home prices in the Country Club neighborhood of Denver is more than $1,070,000, those individuals w...

China: Assessing Gender Inequality

some countries have managed to make decent headway towards addressing the fundamental social and cultural disparities that exist b...

Statistical Analysis and its Applications

typically found to occur. The findings suggested that the majority of individuals chose to leave their childhood faith before they...

Statistical Trend Analysis

of the school age population will primarily speak a language other than English (Flynn & Hill, 2005). Trends such as these can p...

Was Washoe Cognitive and What is Hard Science?

the requirement of awareness. When deaf children learn signing from a young age it may be argued that at first the process is beha...

Personal Reflection on Science in Daily Life

PART I: SCIENTIFIC METHOD The scientific method is reflected in many aspects of day-to-day life. The scientific method...

Science-Fiction: Defining a Concept

the idea of life created not by God but by man and the repercussions produced by such an event. Science does play a key role in an...

Science and Serendipity

fungi mold began to grow in one of his petri dishes (Lightman, 2006). Fleming realized, of course, that the mold was successful in...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

nature of everything from human and animal biology to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Because of this, what scientists "do" is...

The Myth of Scientific Progess

themselves, but rather because of sweeping conceptual changes across culture as a whole (Kuhn, 1996). For instance, the industrial...