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    For my final project, I decided to write my paper over my findings of if people were knowledgeable about cancer. This is a subject that is near and dear to my heart, I have had a few family diagnosed with cancer. Most of them are now in remission and I did lose a two family members that lost their battle. I think if more people became knowledgeable about cancer, we maybe can find a cure in the near future. I will explain how I analyzed the knowledge of the random audience that I selected to

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    University of Phoenix Material Time to Practice – Week One Part A Some questions in Part A require that you access data from Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics. This data is available on the student website under the Student Test Resources link. 1. By hand, compute the mean, median, and mode for the following set of 40 reading scores: SUMMARY 31 32 43 42 24 34 25 44 23 43 24 36 25 41 23 28 14 21 24 17 25 23 44 21 13 26 23 32 12 26

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    Chapter 1. 6. Many drug safety research studies are sponsored by pharmaceutical companies that would financially benefit if the results of the study are favorable. Is this an example of a potential confounding factor? If the sample to test is selected to favor the results of the drug company, it would be categorized as a confounding factor, but if instead the drug company is sponsoring a serious study where the sample is selected randomly and divided in treatment and control groups, the experiment

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    Part 1 of 1 - 20.0 Points Question 1 of 20 1.0 Points If a variable has possible values –2, 6, and 17, then this variable is A. both a continuous and a discrete variable B. a continuous variable C. neither a continuous nor a discrete variable D. a discrete variable Answer Key: D 1.0 Points Question 2 of 20 Which of the following correctly describes the relationship between a sample and a population? A. A population and a sample are not related. B. A sample

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    Data Visually and Through Numbers Data File 2 - Chapter Three (Show all your work) 1) A teacher asked each of her students how many novels they had read in the previous six months. The results are shown below. 0 1 5 4 2 1 3 2 2 7 2 5 0 1 0 1 1 2 6 0 2 3 1 2 7 1 4 2 3 1 7 0 0 2 1 1 0 6 1 7 Construct a frequency table for the number of novels read. Solution: Number of novels read | Frequency | 0 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2)

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    Children, and some adults enjoy going to an Animal Park, or zoo and seeing animals that they do not encounter in day-to-day life. For many it can be a learning experience to witness animals from other areas of the world. What many do not think of is the animal’s well being living in captivity. The documentary “Blackfish” gives an inside look at the animals of SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, in particular the Orca whales. The animal’s well-being is not thought of in many instances, it is more about

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    3.4 Quality assessment A quality assessment based on the PEDro checklist, was performed for the included articles (Table 5). The questions below were answered with yes (Y) or no (N). The two top questions didn’t count for the rating of a study. If a study scored 0-3 point, it was scored as poor quality. A score of 4-5 points was fair quality, a score of 6-8 points was good quality and eventually if a study had a score of 9-10 points, it was of high quality. Did the study have more than one group

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    LL Beans Please submit your analysis of this case. In addition, be prepared to discuss your analysis in class. 1. How significant (quantitatively) of a problem is the mismatch between supply and demand for LL Bean? As per the historical series and its associated statistical description (see graph below), we can observe that there is a significant spread between the A/F ratios sine the standard deviation equals 1/3 of the mean. Besides in cases, there is mismatch beyond 50% between the forecast

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    BMS11 Business Maths and Statistics ASSIGNMENT 1 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS USING EXCEL PART B. QA). The pie charts show that a higher percentage of the male gender has tried the product in comparison to the female gender. Over 50% of both genders have tried the product. However, the fact that the percentage of males who tried the product is higher, suggests that gender does play a role in whether the people will try the product. Yet the role genders play is small, because the difference

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    QNT/561: Week One Assignment Exercises 80, 82, and 87 (Ch. 3) Exercise 80* a. The times are a population because we are considering the wait times for all of the customers seated on Saturday night. b. To find the mean: µ = ∑ X N µ = 1021 25 µ = 40.84 To find the median: The midpoint value of the population is 39. c. To find the range: Range = Largest Value – Smallest Value Range = 67 – 23 Range = 44 To find the standard deviation: σ = √∑ (X - µ)2

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