1. Descriptive analysis of RR% and GR% The mean is a measure of central tendency that obtained by dividing the sum of observed values by the number of observations, n. Data points can fall above, below, or even on the mean, it is widely considered a good estimate for predicting subsequent data points. . For the retention rate (RR %), the mean is 57.41 while it is 41.76 for GR%, the dependent variable. The minimum and maximum are basically the least and highest observed value. For the retention…
Is it alright to begin your day with a question? Can there be slightly more or slightly less than exactly twenty-four hours in a day? How many songs have you memorized in your life? How many more songs do you think you can memorize before you have memorized too many songs and forgotten some? Is the color of the ocean really a reflection of the sky? Do you like to eat salads? Socrates said “The unexamined life is not worth living,” would you agree with him? What temperature is the windchill…
Like any organization, the structure of the mafia represents the norms and set of values that is the road mat to how the organization would operate. Unlike any company however, the consequences of not following the structure of this organization could get you killed. The Mafia was structured much like any other business (outside of the killings). From everything from organizational; decision making, leadership and reward structure; the mafia was one of the most complex business organizations in…
The following shows the corresponding numbers of each day of the week Monday – 1 Friday - 5 Tuesday – 2 Saturday - 6 Wednesday – 3 Sunday - 7 Thursday – 4 Example 7-4: If today is Friday, what day of the week is 6 days after today? Solution: Since Friday is associated with number 5, we need to add 6 to 5. Thus, we have 11. But since there are only 7 days in a week we need to subtract 7 from 11. Thus, we have 4. Hence, the desired answer is Thursday. Situations similar to examples…
Rockefeller is considered to be one of the wealthiest American men ever. After many small business encounters throughout his early years, Rockefeller and associates founded Standard Oil Company. He dominated the oil industry for about 27 years. At one point of his career, Rockefeller controlled about 90% of all oil in the United States. Standard Oil Company had become the first great business trust in the US. After being forced to dismantle his company, Rockefeller focused on Philanthropy. He…
Each totaltraffic graph in the method section shows the server or the client with the above RTT and Window Size as incoming and outgoing traffic. The horizontal axis represents the time in seconds and the vertical axis represents the measured traffic in bytes. The graphs presents the increase of traffic once the experiments starts and ends. Case 3. In comparing the window size and RTT staying the same, the traffic decrease once the window size increase. In comparing RTT and the window size…
Cornelius Vanderbilt was an industrialist and a commercial leader. He was known as one of the wealthiest Americans in the 19th century. In his early business career, Vanderbilt was probably the greatest shipping tycoon known in the United States. Many people feared him because of his competitive abilities when it came down to business. Although, he didn’t just sit around and waited for the cash to come. In his early life, he belonged to a poor family, and his father made a living by providing…
The general health subscale of the SF-12 will be used in this study as the outcome and to assess the general health perception. General health subscale includes one item rated on a 5 point scale, poor to excellent. The response of this item will be transformed to a norm-based score (i.e. 0 to 100). Higher scores indicate a better health status and lower scores indicate a poorer health status [261]. The outcome will be assessed by one item, however, the literature supports validity and…
was a large amount of corruption. There were three powerful men that had control over the economy. These were, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. Pierpont Morgan. Rockefeller is considered to be America’s first billionaire. He owned the Standard Oil Company and became the largest business. He employed different tactics to eliminate the competition by buying other companies, this was called horizontal integration. Carnegie focused on the production of steel. His…
. Which inferential statistics would you choose for the following sets of variables? Explain your answers (refer to Figure 17.5 on page 384 in Polit & Beck). A. Variable 1 represents the weights of 100 patients; variable 2 is the patients’ resting heart rate. a. The inferential statistics utilized in this analysis is the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, the nonparametric two-group study involves two measurable (paired scores) one being the patients weight and the other resting heart…