Essentials of MIS (13th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134802756
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane Laudon
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 10, Problem 2IQ
Program Plan Intro
Statistics:
- Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with data gathering, organization, analysis, understanding and performance.
- It is a term used to review a process that an analyst uses to describe a data set.
- If the data set depends on a sample of a larger population, then the analyst can improve explanation about the populations mainly based on the statistical outcomes from the sample.
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Courses of statistics:
- The course of statistics are descriptive statistics and applied statistics.
- Descriptive statistics
- o These statistics contains the methods for establishing and summarizing information.
- o Most part of the course assigns with these statistics.
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o It also contains creation of graphs, charts and tables and the calculation of many descriptive measures.
- The descriptive measures are averages, measure of variation and percentiles...
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Experience of statistics:
Depending on the area of work, the statistics employees are also known as data analysts, and data managers.
Job roles of data analysts:
- The main job role of data analysts is interpret data, analyze the results using statistical techniques and offer ongoing reports.
- Data analyst will develop and executing the data collection systems.
- The strategies of data analyst that optimize statistical efficiency and data quality...
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Essentials of MIS (13th Edition)
Ch. 10.2 - Prob. 1CQ1Ch. 10.2 - Prob. 2CQ1Ch. 10.2 - Prob. 3CQ1Ch. 10.2 - Prob. 4CQ1Ch. 10.3 - Prob. 1CQ2Ch. 10.3 - Prob. 2CQ2Ch. 10.3 - Prob. 3CQ2Ch. 10.3 - Prob. 4CQ2Ch. 10 - Prob. 1IQCh. 10 - Prob. 2IQ
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