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NFL Team With Sports radar for Location-Based Statistics in 2015
This article discusses how the NFL will unveil a more expansive statistics package this season. This package will include location-based data such as speed, acceleration and distance traveled for each play. Statistics are core to the fan experience and the NFL is looking to capitalize on the trend.
The statistical analysis used by Sports radar will rely on regression analysis to provide player statistics. Through this regression Sports radar will prepare weekly histograms designed to showcase the top quarter of players in regards to acceleration, speed, and yardage.
The Very Stark Numbers on Young Black Men and Gun Violence
This article focuses on a statistically analysis conducted by the Pew Research Center regarding race in America. The article articulates the disparate lives between blacks and whites in America. The article explains how a young black man is fives more likely to be killed by a gun than a white man. The article concludes with startling statistics regarding death by firearm between blacks and all other races combined.
The statistical analysis used in this article relates mainly to the probability distributions of deaths between blacks and whites, separated by age. The statistical analysis also includes descriptive statistics regarding difference in income, incarceration, and wealth between blacks and whites.
3) Six Ways to Separate Lies From Statistics
The article discusses statistical errors within many of the world's best-known institutions. The article begins with an example of a statistical mistake by Harvard Economist Carmen Reinhart. The mistake involved excluding 5 countries when calculating the correlation of economic growth to government debt. The document provides further questions as to the validity of statistical studies and their claims.
The statistical analysis used in this article relates to correlation and the human errors embedded within it. The article also discussed how empirical analyses is more likely to be based on huge data sets containing millions of observations. These data sets are used to help process correlations used in statistics. However, many errors arise that can be found only through sophisticated forensics
4) Scary Health-Care Statistics on the...
Particular emphasis is place on the Feb 4th statistical study conducted by JAMA Internal Medicine. The study suggested that baby boomers are less likely to exercise regularly and are more likely to have adverse health consequences as a result.
The statistical analysis used in this article relates to probability statistics. The JAMA Internal Medicine report extensively used probability statistics to gauge the likelihood of obesity. The study also used surveying to help create an adequate sample size to determine the overall significant level of the study. The study also used the two-sided T-test to help determine if variables were significantly different from 0.
5) Don't Let Workplace Feedback Crush You
This article discusses the relationship between performance appraisal and working satisfaction. The article focuses on a study conducted by Stone and Heen from the Harvard Law School. They found that the system between giving and receiving feedback is broken and poorly timed.
The study used correlation between work place satisfaction and performance appraisal. The study primarily focuses on correlation and regression. The R2 for this regression is very low at .12 signifying that more variables contribute to work place satisfaction
6) Do Statistics Really Lie About Discrimination?
This article discusses the overall value in race statistics. The article focuses on how many statistics although very telling, can be misleading. Emphasis is place on the divide within racial relationships within the United States. The article also provides possible solutions to help end much of the turmoil caused by statistics that do not tell the entire truth
The study focuses on both descriptive statistics and quantitative data. The article provides comparative charts designed to indicate how African-Americans perform relative to their white counterparts. The article also utilizes statistics on the top quartiles of society. Of note, the study provides evidence that wealth is not a uniform distribution but one that is lognormal with a large concentration at more than 3 standard deviations away from the mean
7) Employee Happiness Matters…
Other than the branch expansion there has been no significant change in their financial structuring. The future does not hold much along these lines as shown in the future projections. Other than conservatively adding lease financing as an option their growth is limited. Past figures from Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC). However with the possible income gain from selling either their branch of a line of loans they may
Being able to express statistical results in ways non-statisticians can understand, and explaining those results correctly in language that does not mislead or confuse is becoming a lost art, if the popular media are any indication. Entrepreneurs will use these visual display techniques to increase productivity, notice patterns that may go unrecognized in tabular or numerical reporting, and communicate results quickly without requiring extensive and subjective verbal explanation. Inferential statistics
" (Halpin and Burt, 1998) DuBois states: "The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach
discouraging situation for any aspiring student to be faced with is the possibility of "flunking out" of school. The self-esteem of the "flunky" suffers, and the probability of someday returning to school and obtaining a degree often becomes an improbability. Academic dismissal is not an entity that hides in the foliage, ambushing students on their way to class. Instead, there are telltale markers that a student might be on
This research will fill in a gap that was discovered in the literature review. There have been many, even in an academic setting, that have made comments regarding the effects of email on the student environment. However, there have been no significant studies to substantiate these claims. This study will fill in the existing gap in research and will examine the actual importance of email to the academic setting. Chapter
Nonparametric Tests Many interesting questions related to students are categorical. For instance, there is considerable interest in the different enrollment patterns of male and female students in the following majors: Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). While the literature does provide robust data for the numbers of students enrolled in these majors, intriguing questions remain that may be better suited to more qualitative data collection. For instance, a research question is: