Unit 1 - Fundamentals of Statistics Jeanna Starr American InterContinental University Abstract A data analysis was done on job satisfaction for the company AIU categorized by age, gender, tenure, position, and department. Overall job satisfaction as well as intrinsic (satisfaction with the actual performance of the job) and extrinsic (office location or work colleagues) job satisfaction were considered in this survey. Introduction AIU assembled a team of researchers to study
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Running head: THE NATURE OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS Unit 1 Individual Project Charity Major BUSN 311-1005A-04 Instructor: Dr. Irene Tsapara November 14, 2010 Certification of Authorship: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which I used data, ideas, words, either quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by
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Statistical Databases Jaideep Srivastava and Hung Q. Ngo, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 200 Union street, EE/CS Building, room 4-192, Minneapolis, MN 55455 e-mail: srivasta, hngo @cs.umn.edu, ¡ 1 Introduction A statistical database management system (SDBMS) is a database management system that can model, store and manipulate data in a manner well suited to the needs of users who want to perform statistical analyses on the data. Statistical databases have some special
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quantitative variable can assume any value in a specific range or interval; e.g. length of a pipe. 2. Distinguish between (a) a statistical population and a sample; (b) a parameter and a statistic. Give examples. A statistical population is the set of measurements or observations of a characteristic of interest for all elementary units in a frame; e.g the shoe sizes of all men in Australia. A statistical sample is a subset of a population; e.g. the shoe sizes of all the men in the class 1 is a sample
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Bottling Company Case Study TaNeesh Williams Derrick Barbee MAT 300-Statistics March 14, 2015 Bottling Company Case Study Imagine you are a manager at a major bottling company. Customers have begun to complain that the bottles of the brand of soda produced in your company contain less than the advertised sixteen (16) ounces of product. Your boss wants to solve the problem at hand and has asked you to investigate. You have
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The DMAIC is a core component of the Six Sigma methodology and is a structured problem solving process which provides all employees with a common language and a set of tools to communicate with each other, particularly as members of cross-functional teams, and is considered a roadmap for conducting a Six Sigma project. It is used when making improvements to an existing process. 1. Define – Define is the first step in the process. In this step, it is important to clearly define the problem. One
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The results of the regression analysis are used to determine whether any relationship exists for the three sets of variables and the strength of the relationship. Benefits and Intrinsic Job Satisfaction Regression output from Excel Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.069642247 R Square 0.004850043 Adjusted R Square -0.004718707 Standard Error 0.893876875 Observations 106 ANOVA df SS MS F Significance F Regression 1 0.404991362 0.404991 0.506863 0.478094147 Residual 104 83.09765015
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Bottling Company Case Study Vincent Bacon Dr. Pamela Self MAT 300 Statistics December 14, 2013 Bottling Company Case Study Calculate the mean, median, and standard deviation for ounces in the bottles. To determine the mean, which is the statistical average of all numbers involved, we will add the number of ounces together and divide by the number of bottles, in this case 30. For the mean we get 446.1 / 30, for a mean of 14.9. The median, however, is the ‘middle’ number
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Quantitative Techniques in Business Introduction to Statistics In the business world, and in fact, in practically every aspect of daily living, quantitative techniques are used to assist in decision making. Why? Unlike the classroom, in the “real world” there is often not enough information available to be guaranteed of making a correct decision. For instance, if advertisers would like to know how many households in the United States with televisions are tuned to a particular television show
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Task 6 Statistics II February 4th 2013 A. Excel is used generate a random number using the RANDBETWEEN(1,4) method. Please see part A below. 1. To generate this sample from the whole population of job applicants, using Excel and the method RANDBETWEEN(1,4) the number 2 was generated. The RANDBETWEEN(1,4) method uses an algorithm to generate a random number. This method generates a large number using a seed that is based on the time noted in the computer time. This number is then reduced
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