Tasmania BEA 654 Data and Business Decision Making Semester 2‚ 2013 CRICOS Provider Code 00586B Partial Solutions to Problem Set 2—Week 3 1. Arithmetic mean= (-0.5+1)/2=0.25 (25%) Geometric mean of annual rate of return RG (1 RG ) 2 (1 (0.5))(1 1) R G 0 .5 * 2 1 0 The geometric mean reflects the true return of the investment. 2. c. See the formula. 3. The whole crew is present‚ so this is a population. X = 567‚ X2 = 48‚165‚ N=7 Ordered array of data: 49‚ 63‚ 77‚ 85
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Business Environment and SWOT Analysis Opportunities in the business environment are those factors that provide possibilities for a business to expand so as to make more sales and profits. Constraints are those factors that limit the ability to grow‚ and reduce sales and profit potential. A useful way of assessing opportunities and constraints is to carry out what is known as a SWOT analysis. Strengths and weaknesses are internal to an organisation. Typically they relate to the resources of the organisation
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Aahuti Bhathal Period: 2B Child Development 5/23/13 LEV VYGOSTKY THEORY Lev Vygostky was born to Russian parents on November 17‚ of 1896. Lev vygostky was the second oldest child out of the eight in the family. His mom was a teacher and a full time housewife. His dad was a respected bank manager in Bank of Gomel. Lev Vygostky was never scared to speak in public. Lev Vygostky studied law and graduated with a degree of law from the University of Moscow. While he studied there he was known
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perspective 1. Behaviorism: Pavlov‚ Thorndike‚ Skinner 2. Neo-Behaviorism: Tolmann and Bandura B. Cognitive Perspective 1. Gestalt Psychology 2. Bruner’s constructivist Theory 3. Bruner’s constructivist theory 4. Ausebel’s Meaningful Verbal Learning / Subsumption Theory Prepared by: Nemarose Jane Tauyan Behaviorism: Pavlov‚ Thorndike‚ Skinner Pavlov (1849 - 1936) For most people‚ the name "Pavlov" rings a bell (pun intended). The Russian physiologist is
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Personality psychology is the focus of some of the best known psychology theories by a number of famous thinkers including Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. In this section of the personality study guide‚ learn more about some of the major theories of personality and the psychologists who developed them. Biological Theories Biological approaches suggest that genetics are responsible for personality. Research on heritability suggests that there is a link between genetics and personality traits. One
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1. We selected Florence Nightingale’s Environmental theory. Florence. Nightingale’s theory helped in the development of modern nursing. She was the one who observed the effect of surroundings on healing of mind and body. Her philosophy was that nature helps in curing the sick. In the development of modern nursing and nursing education Florence Nightingale has played an important role. She was born on May 12‚ 1820 in Italy. Her parents were wealthy and they did not like her joining the nursing. Nightingale
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economic theory and accounting practices are objective and based on fact. Positive accounting focuses on analyzing the economic statistics and data at hand‚ and deriving conclusions based on those figures. For example‚ if corporate growth allows a company to increase shareholder dividends over previous dividend payments‚ positive accounting theory would conclude that corporate growth causes a rise in stockholder dividends. Most bookkeeping and data collection involved with accounting relates to positive
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Developmental Theories There are many theories on how a human develops. Most babies follow a certain pattern of development but the controversy is which person ’s developmental pattern of development is correct? Erik Erickson‚ Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget ’s developmental theories are similar. Each of the theories goes through a human ’s development chronologically‚ giving a guideline of when certain developments happen. For example when a child is supposed to walk or when a child is going to speak
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Theory X and Theory Y From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article may require copy editing for grammar‚ style‚ cohesion‚ tone‚ or spelling. You can assist by editing it. (October 2014) Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human motivation‚ created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s‚ that have been used in human resource management‚ organizational behavior‚ organizational communication and organizational development. They describe two contrasting
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Probability 2 Theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability‚ the analysis of random phenomena. (Feller‚ 1966) One object of probability theory is random variables. An individual coin toss would be considered to be a random variable. I predict if the coin is tossed repeatedly many times the sequence of it landing on either heads or tails will be about even. Experiment The Experiment we conducted was for ten students to flip a coin one hundred times
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