Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm (16th Edition)
Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm (16th Edition)
16th Edition
ISBN: 9780135191798
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. 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 taken in statistics:

  • The course of statistics are descriptive statistics and applied statistics.
  • Descriptive statistics
    • These statistics contains the methods for establishing and summarizing information.
    • Most part of the course is assigned with these statistics.
    • It also contains the creation of graphs, charts and tables and the calculation of many descriptive measures.
      • The descriptive measures include averages, measure of variation and percentiles...

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Experience in statistics field:

Yes”, the user has a job experience in the field 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 to interpret data, analyze the results using statistical techniques and offer ongoing reports.
  • Data analyst will develop and execute the data collection systems.
  • The strategies of data analyst optimize statistical efficiency and data quality...

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