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Stat 3021 Practical Assignment Part 3 by Braden McDowell Introduction For the Stat 3021 project, I was interested in determining how NBA draft position impacted a player’s performance. More specifically, I aimed to determine “Do players drafted 1st overall tend to have a higher average win share per 48 minutes (WS/48 — see https://www.basketball-reference.com/about/ws.html for information on the calculation of this stat) than players drafted 2nd overall in their rookie seasons?” I hold a…

The scholar fraternity in mid 20th century recognized the importance of research paper.1 Presently researchers worldwide find themselves under increasing pressure to publish or perish.2 Researchers struggle to publish in international English language journals, that are included in globally respected indexes such as the PubMed.3 The pressure to publish in English-language journals has increased even for scholars in non-English medium academic environments.1 The cost of publication plays a key…

Is college actually preparing students or are students wasting their time attending college? Freeman Hrabowski, the president of University of Maryland wrote an article “Colleges Prepare People for Life.” Most people think that college is a waste of time. On the other hand, some disagree and believe that college can be beneficial. A college student is mostly independent and they have to make their own decisions. In the beginning of this article Hrabowski make it seem like college is too…

Combatting Overconfidence by Mitigating the Dunning-Kruger Effect Literature Review At the intersection of skill and ability sits competency, and its inverse, incompetency. The sum of a persons’ education, capacity, and experience determines whether we are good at something, or poor at something. Unfortunately, humans struggle with judging their expertise; often inflating their expected performance in fields which they are inept, and cheapening their performance in fields in which they are…

education and educational success is even larger. In fact, today while college applicants from every socioeconomic class are equally qualified, 75% of all entering freshmen classes at top tier American institutions belong to the uppermost socioeconomic quartile. A family’s class determines the amount of investment and involvement parents have in their children’s education abilities and success from their earliest years of life. The cultural resources a person has obtained can heavily…

intelligent and gifted students wear away at the hands of society. These very students yearn for education, but are not given the tools and support that I am given in order to be successful. Like me, these students are considered to be in the “lower quartile”, which entails students who don’t receive the best education and are not fully prepared to achieve to and through college. However, this is due to the quality of the school’s education given. Low-income students are less likely to graduate…

one Hrabowski gives the stat that “students need strong counseling to identify the best possible options. Lack of counseling is one reason that fewer than 10 percent of Americans from the lowest income quartile have earned a college degree by age 24, compared to 80 percent of those in the top quartile” (261). Hrabowski really helps his argument by targeting a specific point on the college experience (counseling) and give a strong statistics about it. Hrabowski also provides another statistics,…

1) Calculate all of the ratios listed in the industry ratios table for East Coast Yachts. Industry Ratios Ratio Formula Values Answer Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Current ratio current assets/Current liabilities 51,123,050/50,584,750 1.01 0.86 1.51 1.97 Quick ratio current assets-Inventory/Current liabilities (51,123,050-20,149,650)/50,584,750 0.61 0.43 0.75 1.01 Total asset turnover sales/total assets 611,582,000/401,558,750 1.52 1.10 1.27 1.46 Inventory turnover cost of goods…

Week Four Discussion Fisher 1. Since the Salary Budget is the largest cost for a nursing unit/department, what are some creative ideas you can identify to plan for the expense accurately? There are numerous factors that affect budget planning for salaries. Things to consider; are the nurses in a union with specific wage agreements that must be honored? Does the state in which the manager is creating the budget have mandatory staffing ratios? Will the unit/department be utilizing clinical…

Introduction to Quantitative Analysis Calvin Clark Walden University Introduction We will analyse two variables measured at different level of measurements, using descriptive statistics and graphical representation of the data. The first variable is the age of the respondent, which is a categorical variable measured on nominal scale. The other variable is the number of adults in household of the respondent, measure on ratio scale. Further, we will prepare a confidence interval for the…