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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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2008 Global Automotive Crisis: Causes, Effects & Recovery

In this paper, we will review the effects of 2008 global automotive crisis. Our main focus will be on the American car manufacturers and the negative impact they suffered due to the crisis. We will also have a look at how this crisis had affected car manufacturers in other major markets around the world notably Europe, Canada and the prominent Asian markets such as China and India. Finally, we will look at some of the other factors which were important to this event namely the energy crisis since the cost of fuel is directly related to the car industry.

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Math Concepts for Aspiring Mathematics Instructors

Mathematics Concepts in the Teaching Profession

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Minority Women, Media Portrayals, and Employment Inequality

Although the media has come a long way during the past few decades, there is still inequity among television programming and ethnic stereotyping within the media in general, and many feel that ethnic women, in…

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Motivating Today's Employees: Beyond Money and the Hawthorne Effect

Fifty years ago, an employee could reasonably expect to stay with a single employer from high school graduation to retirement. The global marketplace has changed and few, if any, workers have this sort of job security. Managers must find ways to engage and retain good workers. Current research shows that today's young employees, young adults of the so-called Generation Y, are motivated by more than money. They value their time and social connections. They want recognition from their leaders and they want to have a stake in the decision-making process.

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VHA Mental Health Care Delays and Reform Challenges

Very recently, beginning in 1995 the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) began a series of progressive reforms. The reform has included a substantive list of functional and fundamental changes, including everything from facility improvements to eligibility requirement expansion. The VHA has also adopted a list of changes that includes staffing and response time for mental health screenings for returning soldiers. These changes look good on paper as the VHA has stressed a rapid response time for initial screening that is a VHA policy standard, i.e. 14 days from the initial request for a mental health screening an individual is supposed to be evaluated. Given the nature of the last decade of war and the growing awareness of the mental health challenges that are being faced by countless returning soldiers this would seem a good thing, yet the actual reporting and records system is often delaying these initial screenings significantly, as is staffing issues. According to one reporter even though the VHA reported that 95% of all returning soldiers were being seen in that time frame further inquiry noted that this is simply not the case and the numbers are actually misleading. Upon further investigation the number was actually 49 percent and the average time for the rest of the soldiers was actually 50 days (Mcclatchy, 2012). This number is not in the least acceptable as studies have shown that screening delays in mental health situations create a reduction in the desire of the patient to continue with treatment. According to Mcclatchy (2012) the problem is a poor tracking and records keeping system and staffing shortages that challenge agencies to see patients in a timely manner. This is despite staffing increases of 46 percent between 2005 and 2010.

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Comparing Website Agendas on Aristotle: A Source Analysis

Aristotle was one of the great founders of Greek ethical, scientific, mathematical, and human philosophy, and perhaps the greatest founder of modern, critical scientific empiricism.

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Mental Health Policy: SAMHSA, NIMH, NAMI & Carter Center

This paper is a mix of three different sections that discuss mental illness organizations, their impact on agencies, and their impact on individuals. The main part of the paper breaks doen the four organizations, but there are also sections on Obamacare and other helps for people with a mental illness. Part of the paper does discuss CIFC and how it and its workers are affected.

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Has TSA Gone Too Far? Airport Security vs. Civil Liberties

Transportation Security Administration is one of the most important functions of national security plans as it acts as frontline which any threat to national security might face. After 9/11, this security tool has been criticized greatly for its ineffectiveness. Authorities have been devising strategies of enhancing its productivity and have been equipping it with various tools of detecting and preventing acts of terrorism. One of the recent strategies adopted by TSA is full body scanning of passengers travelling through airlines, by security officials. This particular measure has been criticized heavily by public as well as mass media as it is accused of hampering personal liberty in the name of security checks. Considering the opinions of general public and the outcomes of this practice, it is an established fact that the effectiveness of this security strategy is outweighed by the harm that it has done.

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Classic Airlines Marketing Strategy: A 9-Step Problem-Solving Case

In the early 20th century two young men by the names of Orville and Wilbur Wright made what some argue as the greatest transportation invention ever discovered outside of the automobile. This 50 pound glider with a wingspan of approximately 17 feet would revolutionize the manner in which humans across the world would travel. In fact, this 12 second flight was so instrumental, that the Wright brothers will be forever remembered for their contributions to both aviation and society (Wright Brothers - First Flight of an Airplane, 2011). Now, fast forward 100 years into the future and a very different era has risen in the aviation industry.

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Non-Intrusive Monitoring: Types, Applications, and Benefits

Non-intrusive monitoring, developed by George Hart, Ed Kern and Fred Schweppe in the 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is commonly used in terms of non-intrusive load monitoring, a means of monitoring an electrical circuit which encompasses a particular number of appliances which are all able to turn on and off independent of one another. Instead of attaching a monitor to all of these appliances, non-intrusive monitoring uses electric meters to determine the different uses of power in a given home. Similarly, nonintrusive appliance load monitoring, engages via "a sophisticated analysis of the current and voltage waveforms of the total load, the NALM estimates the number and nature of the individual loads, their individual energy consumption, and other relevant statistics such as time-of-day variations" (Hart).

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