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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...

EXPLAINING STATISTICS

(and data is defined as information collected from an experiment, survey, or some other kind of research) (Lane et al, 2008). Desc...

Probability in Decision Making

To assess this will assume that there are the following probabilities given are 1/4 that there is a member of the population who i...

The Use of Statistics in Behavioral Sciences

This 20 page paper discusses how behavioral scientists use statistics. The writer reviews three journal articles that discuss stud...

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...

Using Statistics to Assess Investments

Answering questions set by the student, the writer shows how may be useful in assessing investments. The first part of the paper l...

Using Statistics - Nyke and the One Size Shoe Plan

The writer uses statistics in a case designed to show how statistical analysis can help with the decision making process. Nyke, a ...

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...

Nursing Research Statistics' Questions

The non-technical interpretation of the results of a study is presented and assessed in the Discussion section. The Introduction ...

Children With Learning Disabilities and Failure Statistics' Data Collection

that the process of evaluating the subjects and providing for questionnaire responses is an element of consideration in evaluating...

Social Structure Reconstruction and Burial Statistics' Role

In Prehistoric Europe, Timothy Champion, and his colleagues had quite a large undertaking because...

A Sports Statistics' Overview

In eight pages sports statistics as they relate to baseball are examined with an explanation of various formulas and their meaning...

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...

High School Dropouts/North Toledo, OH

average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

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...

National Statistics And Local Decisions

say. More than a decade ago, Professor Taflinger (1996) recommended people ask specific questions before simply accepting the data...

The Importance of Statistics to the Insurance Industry

or the beneficiary, will receive a payment. For some policies, such as life insurance policies, this is a fixed amount, for other ...

The Problem with Statistics

it by the size of the population. In some instances this may be a useful statistic, but it can be misleading. For example, when lo...

Statistics in Business Decision

This increases the level of uncertainty. However, when looking at the figures for the company as a whole there is the same pattern...

Statistics in Psychology: Descriptive and Inferential

10 anxiety" is higher than "level 6 anxiety", there is no exact quantifiable distance between the levels; we simply know that one ...

Statistics and the Chesapeake

the answer was colonization (Wheeler and Becker). In addition to deporting the undesirable members of society, Hakluyt also sugges...

Analyzing a Statistical Information Article

that it changed in relationship to the attractiveness of the presenter (Utton, 2002). In the study, as many as three quarters of t...

Inferential Statistics and Nursing Research

the variances in the aspect of disease incidence that they are researching, they typically also wish to formulate inferences based...

Uninsured Americans - The Racial Demographic

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

Tom Nairn's Article on 'Micro States'

In three pages an article summary pertaining to the micro states' sensation is presented in a consideration of concept, statistics...

ECONOMIC DATA ANALYSIS - UNITED STATES, JAPAN, EUROPE AND CANADA

today and in 2005? Inflation - 2008 Inflation -- 2005 Canada 3% 2.5% Euro Area 2.7% 2.7% Japan 2% -2% United States 2% 3.7% A...

Forms of Child Abuse 2

In five pages various types of child abuse are discussed in terms of statistics, situational assessment, and suggested improvement...

HUmans are More Alike Than Different

was 500,000. By 1998, that number soared to 5.5 million households. That was a 72 percent increase. The number of births to unwed ...

An Age Discrimination Case Study

just easier to deal with. The old adage "you cant teach an old dog new tricks" is unfortunately integrated in much of corporate cu...