Introduction After taking this class and learning about statistics has really opened up my mind to how important statistics really is and how much valuably information it can provide for any business. So many decisions we make in our daily lives either at work our in our personal life is based on statistics. As we learned in week’s 1 lecture, Data analysis turns raw data into important information. Statistics is the way of numerical data being collected, analyzed and how it is interpreted by using multiple mathematical methods in order to obtain a range of predicted conclusions. The results obtained can be used to make educated and informed decisions. Throughout this paper I show my understanding of the basics and importance of statistics that I have learned in this course.
Descriptive Statistics In our lecture we learned that descriptive statistics provides crucial information in four main areas, location which show central tendencies and includes mean, mode, and median. Consistency, which show the variability in the data and includes range, variation, and standard deviation. Position, which measures how relative placement data, and where a specific data point lies within the data set, and includes measures such as z-score, percentile, quartile. Last but least, likelihood, which show how common or rare a particular outcome is, and involves probability estimates such as, empirical, theoretical, and subjective probabilities. In essences,
Marsha McMillen Unit 5 Math Discussion After researching the metric system uses in the medical field, I found quite a few uses just used in the billing and coding field. It is used for cost, production to reduce supply and labor costs, clinical performance, such as quality of patient care, also called “patient outcome” data. Other uses are, Patient Safety, nearly 100,000 Americans die each year, because of medical mistakes, that happened during their stay at the hospital, these accidents can lead to longer recoveries and permanent disabilities. We use metrics in-patient surveys after treatment/release, to measure patient satisfaction of their care.
Measurement issues. Data, even numerically coded variables, can be one of 4 levels - nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio. It is important to identify which level a variable is, as this impact the kind of analysis we can do with the data. For example, descriptive statistics such as means can only be done on interval or ratio level data. Please list under each label, the variables in our data set that belong in each group.
Understanding statistics will give me the ability to make better organizational
PSY 350: Experimental Psychology Statistics planning worksheet 1. What is your conceptual IV? That is, what thing do you want to change for participants because you think it will affect an outcome? If you have more than one IV, answer this question for each IV separately. The conceptual independent variable is the emotions of the participants during the experiment. 2.
Week Two Reflective Assignment Mary Carnahan QN 320: Essential Statistical Thinking July 20, 2016 Week Two What I learned this week in “Data Description, Probability, and Counting Rules” Chapter three “Descriptive Analysis and Presentation of Bivariate Data” Bivariate data are values with the two different variables that are from the same population element.
Decision Method: Before presenting the data, I’d like to suggest how to weight it. The indicators of interest affect the potential performance of our manufacturing plant in different ways, and have different levels of disparity between countries, which leads me to believe that each indicator should receive different weights. The weight for each indicator should be decided according to two factors: importance to the success of the plant, and level of disparity between countries. While presenting the data for each indicator, I will touch on these two factors.
Week 3 Practice Problems 1. The class handout cites 3 basic purposes for studying statistics: data reduction, inference, and identification of relationships. In your own words, describe these three ideas in a couple of sentences each. Why do we study statistics? We study statistics for 3 reasons below: Data Reduction:
Paige Stapleton AP Statistics Summer Assignment Chapter 1: Exploring Data 1.1 Displaying Distributions with Graphs 1. In statistics, what is meant by individuals? In statistics, individuals are the objects described by a set of data.
I have found myself to be rooted deep down with my christian ministry group Chi Alpha. We are a group of students that seeks to make relationships within our religion of christianity in order to form a loving community for myself and many others to be a part of. Recently, I have found myself to be useful when it comes to running the soundboard at our worship and collaboration nights where I come in early in order to set up chords and mix the worship band as they practice. This has been an excellent experience as I have been able to keep up my love for music as the same time of attending university. My active participation to this after class activity has developed who I am as a person.
1. Describe your college level coursework and/ or clerical experience as it relates to the knowledge and abilities of the Administrative Aide position. As the Division Secretary, I monitor the Investigations Special Fund by making sure all purchases have appropriate correspondence. I execute monthly minutes for the County Commander’s Association, Child Death Review Team, SART and Sergeants meetings.
The fundamental empirical operation associated with an ordinal scale is the determination of greater or lesser value (a > b > c) (Cooper & Schindler, 2014). In this scenario, the researcher could represent the annual salary data obtained from the 200 employees in an ordinal scale based on attitudes (salary satisfaction), performance, or department ranking. Interval (distance) With interval scale, the researcher adds an element of quantitative categorization of the data characteristics (Stevens, 1946). The fundamental empirical operation associated with an interval scale is the determination of equality of intervals or differences (Cooper & Schindler, 2014). In this scenario, the researcher could represent the annual salary data obtained from the 200 employees in an interval scale based on age range, years as an employment, or salary wage.
He/she should know what is being applied to him/her. If they don’t, then it creates unawareness. 46. For which of the following distributions of scores would the median most clearly be a more appropriate measure of central tendency than the mean?
In Raising the Bar, Reid discusses how to minister to the youth in the midst of today’s culture. He discusses the difference between the worldly view of adolescence and the biblical view of adolescence, relating that students need to be held to a higher standard. He also addresses the need for prayer and some practical ways in which to improve one’s prayer life. In addition, Reid addresses the need for biblical truth in the life of a student and the responsibility of adult leaders to feed them that truth. Each of these areas of discussion has given me greater understanding of how to work with the youth of today and have better equipped me in my own walk with Christ.
Observation tells what to see, what to look out for. Description provides a conceptual vocabulary and framework within which observations can be arranged and organized. Explanation suggests how different observations must be link and connected, and it offers possible caused relationships
I also had the opportunity to work with statistical tools, such as Stata and R, as part of my ‘Learning from Quantitative Data’ and ‘Statistical Data and Analysis’ modules. The subject ‘Sample Surveys and Experiments’ required me to collect and work with real data to produce a comprehensive report on my findings. These modules gave me the qualitative and quantitative skills required to critically analyse research findings, which will be useful for the Research Methods unit and the