Essays on Summarizing

What is statistics?

Statistics is a scientific approach that deals with a range of procedures for collecting, gathering, organizing, summarizing, presenting, and analyzing data and making inferences to aid in finding solutions to problems (Jani, 2014).

Contrast between qualitative and quantitative data

Quantitative data is that which can be measured and reported numerically (Brown & Saunders, 2008). For instance, the marks scored by students in a test, the GDP of countries, among other examples. Quantitative data can be either discrete or continues. Continuous data can take any number hence includes decimal points. For example, the distance between two towns, the height of students in a class, among others. Discrete ...

Question & Answer

Question & Answer

Resolving or managing conflict is the process where an individual controls and channels a disagreement with an organization. The following are five basic strategies for resolving conflict: Accommodating, competing, collaborating, avoiding, and compromising. Competing is an uncooperative and assertive strategy of resolving a conflict. This strategy can be important when unpopular decisions need has to be made or when one has to stand up for his or her rights. However, since it often creates situations of quietness and it makes others feel inferior, competition needs to be cautiously applied. Accommodating is another appropriate strategy; however, accommodating is ...

Plagiarism, the act of appropriating someone else’s ideas without giving proper credit, is extremely reprehensible in academic circles. Sanctions for plagiarism may range from receiving a failing grade in an assignment to being expelled from the academic institution, depending on the seriousness of the act and the academic level of the perpetrator. It is therefore in the students’ best interest to master the art of properly incorporating others’ ideas into their own papers. Obviously it is essential for students to master the writing techniques of summarizing, paraphrasing, referencing and writing correct bibliographies, applying the style required by the ...

Question one

The descriptive statistics is the analysis of data for describing, showing, and summarizing records in a meaningful way so that the patterns to emerge from the information. However, it does not allow the analysts to draw conclusions beyond the data to be analyzed concerning any hypotheses being made. The types of descriptive statistics are as follows: The measure of central tendency. It is the way of describing the central position of a distribution for the collection of data. That is the frequency distribution the distribution pattern of records of a company particularly from the lowest to the highest. Therefore, ...

Abstract

The current government has consistently been trying to reduce the costs of healthcare and at the same time improve its quality. This paper focuses on the current state of healthcare through an extensive research on the population. The research uses a cross sectional design to collect data and come up with relevant conclusions. The research project aimed at using a homogenous population to come up with accurate results. Such a population involves participants who have the same knowledge about the subject. Such participants are easily obtained through a referral process where one participant refers another. A total of 50 ...

Voting rights in Gabon

Introduction Gabon, the official name of which is Gabonese Republic, is an African country that is located on the west coast of the continent – the area that is believed to be one of the most stable in the whole Africa. The capital and the biggest city is Libreville with the population of 450 000 citizens, while the total population of the country is quiet small – only 1.5 million people. Though the population of the country is not big, it is considered to be the nation with one of the highest income per capita in Africa. In addition to oil, ...

Introduction

The process of skilled helping is a structured process in which the helper and the helping technique should interact and operate with the subjects to ensure that the resultant help is most effective in its approach. Gerard Egan offered the 3-stage model for aiding the helpers in solving problems and seeking newer opportunities in the field of skilled help or counseling services. The prime objective of the model was to enable people for living more effectively and make more efficient use of most of the available opportunity around them to get the maximum yielding results (Shorrock, 2011). The model ...

Introduction

I am a United States Army personnel who is also a senior in the 2nd year post-University course. My ultimate goal in life is to receive a management degree (MBA) and then seek a retirement from the United States Army. I have been serving the United States Army for almost 8 years and now I aspire to lead a normal family man’s life after attaining my MBA and grabbing some suitable job in a managerial profile. As I have already lived a life of staying away from the family for most of the times during my US army ...

Summary of the Paper

The ‘Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate’ paper by Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington provides an exploration of why there was a political shift by the Southerners from the Democratic Party. Further, the paper digs deeper to assess the extent of shift that was driven by the racially conservative whites’ reaction to the Democrats’ 1960s Civil Rights initiatives as opposed to other changes in the period. By a large extent, the researchers concluded that civil rights were an important cause of this shift especially after reliance on the qualitative sources.

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China is a huge country located in Asia with the population over 1 billion people. It occupies a large territory, on which the population consisting 56 ethnic groups lives. As any other country, China has its own history, traditions and unique culture. Culture includes such elements of society’s life as language, food, clothing, religion, morals and norms and etc. Some of these elements will be briefly described and discovered in this essay in order to provide a better understanding of Chinese culture. According to the Chinese culture, there are four main necessities of a daily life: clothing, food, ...