Alexandria\'s Quality of Life: I

Alexandria's Quality of Life: I would look at the conventions that the City of Alexandria has styled over the last year to assess whether that sentence is correct. Secondly, I would investigate the quantity and quality of museums, libraries and other cultural institutions that the city has.

(Answers to Update # 1: The indicator measures the variables that go into definition of Quality of Life (QOL). It is important because it provides us with a way of measure. The operational definition defines / spells out / operationalizes characteristics of QOL (for instance in this case) such as 'happiness'. It is most times measured using reliable tools that have been consistently performed on large diverse samples of randomly selected people. When Likert scales are used, the spectrum of scores granted to question (the variable's scale) ranges from 1 to 5 (i.e. from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree" or the reverse).

Logic model # 1 research -- laws / conventions of City of Alexandria over the last 10 years -- investigation of the quality of these conventions -- grounded theory / phenomenology -- other statistical tools. The purposes of this assignment would be to assess whether indeed the laws drafted within the last decade generally reflect the truth of the phrase.

Logic model # 2: divide the country into different parts- consult guidebooks -- involve help of people - count numbers of museums, libraries, cultural institutions (e.g. theaters etc.) -- visit them -- analyze them -- assess their quality. Doing so would be able to tell me the extent to which Alexandria values history, diversity and culture.

3. a. This question is unclear. By NI assume you mean total Number of Deliveries for 2009; 2010; and 2011 individually. N, accordingly, stands for 24 (2009); 32 (20110); 24 (2011). Some years witnessed higher / lower rate of delivery than others.

4. Mean Delivery (2009): = 2.4; (2010) =3.2; (2011) = 2.4

Median 2009= 2; 2010=3; 2011 = 2.

SD: 2009= 1.07497; 2010 = 1.54919; 2011= 0.84327

c. *The question doesn't make sense since Chicago has in each year only one score (i.e. 2 in 2009) You cannot work out mean etc. from this. Even when dividing the digit itself into mean (e.g. 2 into 1, the z- score fails to create. I have to have a larger set of numbers for Chicago during each particular year in order to work out a z-score.

3. The CDC uses a pie chart to show the annual rate of deaths in the U.S. attributable to smoking. The different segments illustrate the percentages of different kinds of diseases caused by smoking. The pie chart tells us that smoking causes the greatest casualties in lung cancer (128,900) and in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (92,900). The pie chart is effective in that it uses colors to differentiate each segment as well as having a succinct clear title on top, its source added below, and the cause and number of the course listed by each segment. There is no need for improvement. (Source: CDC: Annual Deaths Attributable to Cigarette Smoking -- United States, 2000 -- 2004. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/health/attrdeaths/index.htm)

4. a. What kind of hierarchy does the organization have: vertical or horizonatl (nominal); List the levels and status of employees in the organization; who precedes whom (ordinal); measure the number of people who do x, the number of people who do y etc. . Alternatively, investigate number of times that particular rules appeared during the last year (interval / ratio).

b. A variable would be the type of communication / software assocaited with kind of hierarchy. Three potentially confounding factors with measuring would be historical factors e.eg fluctuation and movement of employees in and out of the organization over the years influencing culture drift; bias of employees making it hard to accept their evidence; factors happening outside the study that may impact study itself (e.g. recession may impact orgnaizational culture).