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    What is its self-supporting growth?

    Bannister Legal Services generate $2,000,000 in sales during 2010, its year-end total assets were $1,500,000. Also, at year-end 2010, current liabilities were %500,000, $2,000,000 note payable, $200,000 of accounts payable, and $100,000 of accurals. Its profit margin will be 5%, and its payout ratio will be 60%. How large a sale

    Hypothesis Testing Quantitative Analysis

    Use the Wealth Score column to answer two questions: 1) Are married people wealthier than single people? Are people over 55 years old wealthier than people under 55? Do the t-test. First check for equal variances using the F-test. Use the appropriate t test, depending on the outcome of the variance test. That is if the variances

    Problems involving hypothesis testing

    one-sample hypothesis test using Megastat. The mean arrival rate of flights at O'Hare Airport in marginal weather is 195 flights per hour. To increase arrivals, a new air traffic control procedure is implemented. In the next 30 days of marginal weather the following arrival rates were obtained 210, 215, 200, 189, 200, 213

    Null and Alternative Hypotheses of Average Age

    The average age for all medicare patients in the USA is 75. A sample from a clinic shows that the average age of the clinic medicare patients is 78. a. what are the null and alternative hypotheses to test if the average age of the clinic mediare patients is significantly different from the national aveage? b. suppose you f

    Try to understand How McNemar's Test for Matched Pairs works.....

    Testing a treatment in the article "eradication of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth Reduces Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome" (pimentel, chow and Lin, American Journa of gastroenterology, VOl 95, No 12), the authors include a discussion of whether antibiotic treatment of bacteria overgrowth reduces intestinal complaints

    Hypothesis Testing of Proportions..

    awson and Jick [1976] compare drug prescription in the United States and Scotland. (a) In patients with congestive heart failure, two or more drugs were prescribed in 257 of 437 U.S. patients. In Scotland, 39 of 179 patients had two or more drugs prescribed. Test the null hypothesis of equal proportions giving the resulting p-

    Non-Significant Results in Research

    Supposing that I formulate a hypothesis and conduct an experiment, but the results were not significant. Is it possible to gain information from that or has my experiment been a failure? Can you enlighten me on this and also provide me with examples to support the argument.

    Reflection Project Undertaken

    Discuss a recent research project undertaken in the last 3 to 5 years. What type of analysis was conducted? What decisions were made? How can you apply hypothesis testing at your place of work or another similar setting? Can you identify a situation within your workplace or community where hypothesis testing could be used?

    Statistics

    Need assistants in understand how to calucate in order to arrive at the correct answer. I am having issues arrive to the correct answer.

    RES/341

    Citrus Rental is a popular car rental agency that has a history of having too few cars available, so that its available cars are overdriven. The mean monthly mileage over the years for Citrus cars has been about 1600 miles per month. Recently, though, Citrus purchased thousands of new cars, and the company claims that the avera

    Applied Statistics: Health Care Professionals

    A hypothesis could be that the rate of teenage crime (13-19 year olds) 50 years ago in the United States was significantly lower than the rate of teenage crime is today. What would be the contrary viewpoints to the proposed hypothesis which would make it void? What is your position on this?

    Null, Alternate Hypothesis, Alpha, Test Statistic Help

    Please assist with this problem and step-by-step show me how to solve it. I don't want just answers, I want to learn how to solve these problems. Your help is appreciated. (If you know the technique on how to solve in MegaStat and could use that as your step by step that would be awesome as I cannot figure that program out but i

    Hypotheses Testing Error Types

    QUESTION 1 A study conducted in March 2009 found that about half of U. S. adults trusted the U. S. government more than U. S. business to solve the economic problems of the United States. However, when the population is subdivided by political party affiliation, the results are very different. The study showed that 72% of Demo

    Statistical Analysis in SAS

    See attached files. For this assignment, you will use the two attached dataset files. You will read a comma delimiter file into SAS and list the contents of the SAS dataset, replacing missing values. The following steps are necessary to complete this assignment: 1. Read a csv (comma delimiter) file into SAS and list t

    Hypothesis test for amounts paid into private pension funds

    A sample of 87 professional working women showed that the average amount paid into private pension fund per person, per year, was $5,152, and that the population standard deviation is $1,100. A sample of 76 professional working men showed that the average amount paid into a private pension fund per person, per year was, $5,727,

    Test hypothesis for percentage of accounting firms that offer flexible scheduling

    A study by Hewitt Associates showed that 79% of companies offer employees flexible scheduling. Suppose a researcher believes that in accounting firms this figure is lower. She randomly selects 45 accounting firms and determines that 303 of these firms have flexible scheduling. Test the researcher belief at a 1% level of sigifi

    Hypothesis Test for the Average Income of a Sold Proprietor CPA

    A ten year old survey found that the average income of sole proprietor CPA's was $74,914. To update this information, a new survey of 112 proprietor CPA's was taken and it showed a mean of $74,695. Use a 5% level of significance to test whether the average income sole proprietor CPA's has increased. Assume a population standard

    Linear regression, p-value and test statistic

    Bay area community college (BACC) has collected data comparing the starting salaries of their graduating students with last names beginning with the letters A through M with those whose last names begin with N through Z. The first categorty provided 47 random responses with an average starting salary of $29,426.42 and a standard

    Two-Sample Tests and Evidence

    A teacher claims that a grammar seminar will help students reduce the number of grammatical errors they make when writing a 1000-word essay. The table shows the number of grammatical errors made by seven students before participating in the seminar and after participating in the seminar. Student 1 2 3 4 5

    You conducted a study to examine the relationship between party affiliation and gender. You find the following: Democrat Republican Independent Male 52 65 20 Female 88 52 35 Are sex and party affiliation related? Report the appropriate null and research hypotheses and the critical value (alpha = 0.05). In addition, provide your statistical conclusion, including calculation of test statistic and what the data suggests in one to two sentences.

    Assignment 2: Chi-Square Analysis You conducted a study to examine the relationship between party affiliation and gender. You find the following: Democrat Republican Independent Male 52 65 20 Female 88 52 35 Are sex and party affiliation related? Report the appropriate null and research hypotheses and the

    need help on these problems

    1. Consider the hypothesis test given by ho: m=50 h1: m=>50. in a random sample of 100 subjects, the sample mean is found to be xbar = 53.4. also the population standard deviation is sigma= 8 Determine the p-value for this test. is there sufficient evidence to justify the rejection of ho? explain. 2) We perform t

    Test a manufacturer's claim that defective machines

    A PC manufacturer claims that no more than 2% of their machines are defective. In a random sample fo 100 machines, it is found that 5 percent are defective. The manufacturer claims this is a fluke of the sample. At a 0.01 level of significance, test the manufacturer's claim and explain your answer. Test and CI for One Propor

    Statistics regression anaylsis, Ho and null hypothesis

    How do I determine sleep affect on GPA or is something else affecting grades as much, using statistics? Background There have been various studies that say students' grades are affected by poor diet, high amounts of stress, lack of sleep, and excessive alcohol use. Perhaps one of the most important factors out of those ment

    Statistics of SPSS 2004GSS.sav data file

    Crosstabulation: Examine variables in the "2004GSS.sav" data file. Choose one from the following three variables to be the dependent variable in the hypotheses you will establish. a. Grass b. Fear c. Gunlaw Choose another variable from the data

    Statistical Tests: Hypotheses, Critical Region, and P-Value

    Let p equal the proportion of drivers who use a seat belt in a country that does not have a mandatory seat belt law. It was claimed that p = 0.14. An advertising campaign was conducted to increase this proportion. Two months after the campaign, y = 104 out of a random sample of n = 590 drivers were wearing their seat belts. Was

    Vehicle Type Vary by Mall Location

    Exercise 15.22 A student team examined parked cars in four different suburban shopping malls. One hundred vehicles were examined in each location. Research Question: At a = .05, does vehicle type vary by mall location? Vehicle Type Somerset Oakland Great Lakes Jamestown Row Total Car

    Hypothesis Testing

    1. What is the five step process for hypothesis testing? Why or why not? What is the null hypothesis? Why is it important? What are its implications? Explain. You may use examples to show your understanding. 2. Why is it said that hypothesis testing involves a double negative logic? Explain why you think that this logic is i

    Modification Sample Means for LSD Test

    10. Three Radar modifications were tested for detection range improvement using five trials each. The following single factor ANOVA Table presents the results: (See attachment for table) The modification (Mod) sample means are: Mod A = 31.4, Mod B = 28.6,Mod C = 23.8 Using the Fisher LSD test, determine if any of the