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What is Statistics?

Statistics is the mathematical discipline concerned with collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data to support conclusions and decisions. It appears across an unusually wide range of academic courses — from psychology and labor economics to public health, criminal justice, aviation safety, and counseling program evaluation. What makes it academically interesting is precisely this versatility: statistical reasoning provides a common language for fields that otherwise share little methodology, allowing researchers to move from raw numbers to defensible claims about behavior, policy, and risk.

The student papers archived here reflect that breadth. Some take a descriptive approach, using data analysis to characterize specific phenomena such as attendance patterns in baseball or everyday applications of statistics in sports. Others apply quantitative techniques to social and policy questions, including social welfare programs, labor economics, and correctional officer studies. Several papers engage with comparative analysis — weighing cases against each other, as seen in the aviation safety versus driving comparison — while others work through applied or capstone contexts such as perinatal loss support and counseling program evaluation. Across these approaches, concepts like the Durbin-Watson test signal that technical fluency with specific measures also carries weight.

A strong essay on statistics grounds its thesis in a clearly defined analytical question rather than simply reporting numbers. Evidence carries most weight when it is tied to an explicit method — explaining not just what the data show but how the analysis was conducted and why that method suits the question. A common pitfall is treating statistical findings as self-explanatory; every result requires interpretation that connects the numbers back to the real-world context being studied.

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Job-retention outcomes of federal welfare-to-work employees

Susan Tinsley Gooden and Margo Bailey wrote the journal article "Welfare and Work: Job-Retention Outcomes of Federal Welfare-to-Work Employees," published under the Public Administration Review.

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Roe v. Wade and the legal debate over abortion rights

Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive."

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Post-breakup contact patterns in heterosexual and same-sex couples

AFTER ALL IS SAID and DONE literature review into the relationships heterosexual and homosexual couples maintain after they break up.

North Carolina State University's Industrial Extension Service and manufacturing success

North Carolina State University has an Industrial Extension Service (IES) for the purpose of assisting small to medium size manufacturing companies in NC compete and succeed.

Substance abuse in adolescents: causes and preventive interventions

The problem of substance abuse is one that has plagued the nation for decades. This issue stems far beyond the user themselves and far into the realm of national issues including: the economy, healthcare, legislation and public policy. For years, the nation has dealt with the issue of substance abuse, but only in its recent past has the issue become one that deals directly with adolescents. As the years pass by, substance abuse appears to affect a younger and younger demographic. Substance abuse in adolescents is an issue that not only affects the individuals abusing drugs and alcohol, but has the capacity to affect the nation as whole.

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Racial bias in American capital punishment since 1972

In 1972, the Supreme Court of the United States abolished the death penalty because they found that in the U.S., it had been historically applied to different races in different ways. But since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977, there have been more than 1200 executions in the United States and an investigation of how the death penalty was applied in those cases can demonstrate how, in spite of the Supreme Court's abolishment, the rewriting of the laws, and its reinstatement, the death penalty, as a punishment, still seems to be applied in an arbitrary and racially biased manner. As the Supreme Court once decided that the death penalty could only be used if it was applied in an fair and even-handed manner, an objective look at the facts surrounding the current application of the death penalty will demonstrate that, like before, it is being applied in an arbitrary manner, specifically discriminating against African Americans.

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The World Bank's approach to infrastructure reform through privatization and regulation

Infrastructure is the foundation of a healthy economy and an equitable society. The World Bank's Policy Research Report on Reforming Infrastructure: Privatization, Regulation, and Competition evaluates infrastructure…

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Understanding statistical data evaluation for professional practice

Healthcare practitioners as well as other professionals must know how to deal with statistical data in order to do their jobs on a daily basis. As Rumsey (2003) points out, professionals are presented with statistical…

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Early retirement incentives as organizational downsizing strategy

¶ … early retirement incentives as a downsizing strategy sUMMARY: This is a thesis that analyzes and studies the use of early retirement incentives as a downsizing strategy by organizations.

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Citizen participation and accountability in Taiwan's response to Typhoon Morakot

Shafritz defines emergency management as: Actions taken to prepare for, prevent, or lesson the effects of natural (such as floods and tornadoes) and human (terrorism) disasters. Since 2001, emergency management has taken on a new sense of urgency and has been given significant new resources with advent of the war and terrorism. (p. 101) Haddow, Bullock, and Coppola indicate, "Emergency management is an essential role of government" (p. 2). Emergency management is a task that the whole world has to face. Natural disasters visit us unannounced from time to time, like the earthquake in Japan, Haiti, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Human disasters like 911 emerge now and then as well. How governments and public administrators deal with emergencies poses a challenge, and it takes coordination and collaboration from all sides concerned to make a peaceful transition from a chaotic situation back to normal life.

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