Wittenburg University Case Study Case Study 2 – Mastering Teacher Leadership Business Research Methods 1 This case presents a situation that is quite common in the education field and addresses the responses by institutions to new legislation imposed upon them. As is often the case‚ the legislators do not address the impacts to organizations‚ leaving the actual implementation to the end user (i.e.‚ public and private schools). In this particular case‚ Wittenburg University (WU) is faced with the
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CLUSTER ANALYSIS: ALGORITHMS AND ANALYSIS USING SAS BY: AHMED ALDAHHAN SUPERVISED BY: LECTURER JING XU BIRKBECK UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 2013/2014 ABSTRACT The scope of this paper is to provide an introduction to cluster analysis; by giving a general background for cluster analysis; and explaining the concept of cluster analysis and how the clustering algorithms work. A basic idea and the use of each clustering method will be described with its graphical features. Different clustering
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customers is selected with data collected on the following five variables: LOCATION (Rural‚ Urban‚ Suburban) INCOME (in $1‚000’s – be careful with this) SIZE (Household Size‚ meaning number of people living in the household) YEARS (the number of years that the customer has lived in the current location) CREDIT BALANCE (the customers current credit card balance on the store’s credit card‚ in $). The data appears below‚ and is available in Doc Sharing Course Project Data Set as an EXCEL file:
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research. The qualitative research design was used in this study. Data was collected from an interpretative perspective thus provided a holistic understanding of how participants related and interacted with each other in this study (Maree‚ 2010). An exploratory design was also used to explore and answer the research questions. Qualitative research design is flexible and exploratory in nature. This method allows the researcher to adjust data continuously until a full meaning and knowledge of what is
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Methodology Introduction The aim of this chapter is to present and discuss the methodology applied to the research of this dissertation. It has been identified in the literature review that there is still a lack of data regarding festival experience and the underlying motives behind attending a festival. In order to gain a deeper insight into festival attendee motives the researcher will focus on the popular Tomorrowland Festival to identify the motivations of attendees and how the overall production
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Assignment one Introduction: Analysis of sports performance is of great importance to a higher performance sports coach. “Coaching is about enhancing an athlete(s) performance a principal means by which this achieved is through feedback however research as proven that human observation and memory are not reliable enough to provide the detailed information necessary to secure behavioural changes” (Franks and Miller 1986) P101. According to world renowned rugby union coach Graham Henry “A
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Essay 3 This essay provides an analysis of the variables‚ statistical tests and methods used in the assigned research paper. The level of significance and the strengths and limitations of the data collection process were also reviewed. This study had several variables. One major independent variable is the qualitative questionnaire that was verbally given. In this scenario the dependent variable would be the measurement of the data that was collected. The process of a cause-effect relationship
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Analysis Tools Comparison: R Language‚ Matlab‚ esProc‚ SAS‚ SPSS‚ Excel‚ and SQL The interactive analysis is a circular analytics procedure comprising assumption‚ verification‚ and calibration by the analyst to achieve the fuzzy computation goal. For specifics and details‚ please refer to another article I composed: Interactive Analysis and Related Tools. Because there are so many tools for interactive analysis that not everyone can know all of them‚ I will only focus on and compare the most
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Quantitative Methods in Management. Sage Publications Principal Components Analysis Introduction Principal Components Analysis (PCA) attempts to analyse the structure in a data set in order to define uncorrelated components that capture the variation in the data. The identification of components is often desirable as it is usually easier to consider a relatively small number of unrelated components which have been derived from the data than a larger group of related variables. PCA is particularly useful
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1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background Macmillan English Dictionary defines recycling as “the process of treating waste materials such as newspaper and bottles so that they can be used again”. Beside paper and bottles there have lots of recyclable items such as aluminum cans‚ scrap metals‚ plastic and printer cartridges. Recycling saves energy and reduces pollution and would help slow down global climate change. The history of recycling is started nearly 4000 years ago‚ there was a recovery and reuse
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