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    Sample size determination is an important part of any research. Probable size of study should be considered, which is required to reach the study aims at the design phase. The figuring of a fitting sample size depends on a subjective decision of certain elements and occasionally crude approximate of others, and could as an outcome appear rather artificial (Whitley and Ball, 2002). Thus, there are foremost three key factors which should be taken into account in computation of a proper sample size

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    considerations to my study: (1) sample size, (2) subjectivity, and (3) trustworthiness of my research that need to be acknowledged. The first consideration of my study is based on a small sample size of eight school leaders. I’ve come to recognize that my findings in this narrative study can only be generalized by the lived experiences and told stories given by each of the selected principals in the study. An important perspective in narrative studies is that a small sample size allows only for researchers

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    Statistical methods can be useful in compliance assessment and corrective action monitoring, where single-sample testing is mandatory against a static groundwater protection standard. These criteria health and also those derived from related as a fixed standard. The primary tool for monitoring is the confidence interval. Numerous ranges of confidence intervals, including confidence intervals around means, medians. The goal is on planning tests with reasonable statistical performance in terms of per-test

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    Chapter 10 31. A new weight-watching company, Weight Reducers International, advertises that those who join will lose, on the average, 10 pounds the first two weeks with a standard deviation of 2.8 pounds. A random sample of 50 people who joined the new weight reduction program revealed the mean loss to be 9 pounds. At the .05 level of significance, can we conclude that those joining Weight Reducers on average will lose less than 10 pounds? Determine the p-value. Answer: H0: = 10 pounds

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    One- and Two-Sample Tests of Hypothesis, Variance, and Chi-squared Analysis Problem Sets • Exercises 19 and 20 (Ch. 17) Chapter 10 31. A new weight-watching company, Weight Reducers International, advertises that those who join will lose, on the average, 10 pounds the first two weeks with a standard deviation of 2.8 pounds. A random sample of 50 people who joined the new weight reduction program revealed the mean loss to be 9 pounds. At the .05 level of significance, can we conclude that those

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    The objective of this study was to record a quantitative approximation of how many bacteria are present within various samples of meat products. The bacterial content of each meat sample is vital information in regards to improvements within the meat processing industry, and gives reason for changing or sustaining current feeding and processing conditions. Understanding which methods taken in processing meat that is sold to the public is a matter of public health, as obtaining and maintaining lower

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    collection of samples to the final step of communicating the test results to the patients, LAA has shown that they have created a process with numerous factors to success as well as room for improvement. The following is a flow chart representative of the steps of the process and the reliance each step has to other steps: While not

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    accomplished by the Middle Limit Theory. Random Sampling:definition: The group of independent of options is known as random sampling. The random sampling has analogous independent chances. The random sampling is used to achieve the unbiased sample. The sample of n elements may be selected through the N elements of population. It involves the unpredictable components. The random is capable to have the number of types. The random sampling is one of the searching the small representative part from

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    been studying diseased remains for centuries and collecting and maintaining donated samples for more than a hundred years (Westfall et al 36). Today these places are called biobanks. Biobanks are institutes that collects and maintains donated samples of human blood, tissues, and any other collectable genetic material for the purpose of research (Westfall et al 37). At first biobanks were small and collected samples for specific study purposes. Records were kept in a notebook and specimens were stored

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    According to (Chimedza, Muchengetwa & Chinyemba 2010) data is a collection of numbers or observations of things that are happening brought together for reference or analysis for example hourly movement of a cyclone.(Tucker 1988) iii) Representative sample refers to a particular group that will have been chosen to represent others that is a subset of a statistical population that accurately reflects the members of the entire population (Tucker 1988) For example in a class of six students three male

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