1. Can research be done without formulating a hypothesis? What is the importance of the null hypothesis?

2. When is a hypothesis rejected? When it isn’t rejected? What are its limitations?

3. What is the difference between level of significance and level of confidence? How are the two related to type I and type II errors used in hypothesis testing? Explain using a specific example.

4. What is z-test? What is t-test? When should we use t-test, not z-test for population means? Would the results be significantly different?

5. Explain the difference between a left-tailed, right-tailed and two-tailed test. Give you own examples.

6. When would you choose a two-tailed test? How might you tell the direction of the test by looking at a pair of hypothesis? How might you tell which direction (or no direction) to make the hypothesis by looking at the problem statement (research question)?

7. What is the differences between a dependent (paired) test and an independent two- samples independent test? What are the requirements needed for each test. Provide examples.

8. Under what circumstances must a nonparametric test be used? Explain. What are the strengths and weaknesses of nonparametric tests? Can the outcomes of nonparametric tests be generalized to populations?

hink of your analysis as a story that must have a story structure when presented.

All data has a story to tell. Many people present just the facts. The who, how, and why related to the data are missing.

• Who does it affect?
• How does this data relate to our audience?
• Why do we care?

That’s how people remember data . . . with a story.

Your
analysis of the data should be factual, yes. However, it should also be
interesting, simple, and memorable. It should be a story.

First Post
For this discussion post, please explain the importance of storytelling and why it should be a part of your data analysis. Tell a story by using examples and specifics.

In your response, discuss your reaction to your classmate’s writing process. Your responses should be approximately 100 words each.

1. For me, I prefer to write in chunks and piece those chunks together toward the end, writing into intro and conclusion once the ideas of the document are fortified. In the textbook, the biggest difference between workplace writing and college writing is that we have to use wisdom in the workplace writing. Your ability to communicate with others through computer networks will be critical to your career, and it is very often to communicate via technical tools. Therefore, writing skills in workplace is very important. In general, there are two genres: Analytical report and Specification. Each genre has different organization. The writing process I prefer can transfer to the workplace in this way. I prefer to write in chunks together toward the end, writing into intro and conclusion once the ideas of the document are fortified.

When I writing an analysis paper, I will give the introduction first, and then I will analysis in several different parts, and give conclusion according to these analyzing. In the workplace, there are usually six steps to finfish the writing: planning out your project and doing start-up research, organizing and drafting, improve the style, designing the document, revising and editing, finished document. We can analysis workplace writing like college writing, and the six steps also fit the college writing. It is very important to analysis in workplace writing. Every time, we give a plan or a report, we need to analysis the strength and weakness. Just like college writing, we have to analysis things in different aspects.

There are many ways that I can work for the transition. Now, I will start to write more analyzing paper, and make good organization for the paper. I can ask my friends who are working to help me revise the paper. I will also talk with instructor to ask for advice. I can also find an intern job to improve my workplace writing skills.

I can some tips to the students who have a similar writing process with me. It is very important to improve your skill of analyze, and you should keep writing. You should always talk with your instructors and your classmates, so you can get more ideas about writing from them.

2. For me now, my writing style is diverse. After a lot of writing lessons I learned a lot of different writing methods. When I study at ELP, the teacher taught me the writing method to write straight through–from the introduction to the conclusion. Directly into the subject, each paragraph must sum up the meaning you want to express. Finally, you will write a summary, introduce and summarize the contents of this article. When I studied ENG111, my writing style turned into write in chunks and piece those chunks together toward the end, writing the intro and conclusion once the ideas of the document are fortified.

For me, I prefer to write in chunks, put these pieces together, write out the introduction and conclusions, once the idea of the document is strengthened. I think that writing is more normative and easier for others to understand.

When I go to workplace, I will continue to adhere to this writing style because the workplace needs more normative writing. When I write an article or report, I must first write my introduction, and then use a lot of sections together to express their views and ideas, the need for each section of a detailed analysis and summary and then finally give their own in conclusion. This will be a satisfactory report and article.

I think the writing skills I have learned during college can be used as my own transformation, for example, I have written some debates and analyzed essays. Through the teacher’s explanation, and the exchange with the teacher which I will sum up a more suitable for my writing method. My writing proposal is, do not worry about their writing good and bad, according to their own ideas boldly to write out, and then find some friends or teachers give some advice, writing level will naturally become better.

Answer the questions listed in the tab (Info) by using the FDIC, FFIEC, Yahoo Finance, and/or Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank resources for Synovus. List all the sources for the data used in answering the questions. In the tab (Ratios) compute all financial and accounting ratios in the green cells according to the performance analysis performed in Chapter 3. For your own convenience, the necessary data for all ratio computations from the UBPR are included in the tabs (UBPR p.1 – UBPR p. 11). The ratios included in the latest UBPR for the bank and the peer group are included in the tab (Ratios) in the orange cells.

I have finished the majority of this, but I know some, you finish these which is blank, I don’t fill in.

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Former President George W. Bush confirmed North Korea’s nuclear strike capability in his book, ‘Decision Points:”

“Kim also maintained a nuclear weapons program and a ballistic missile capability that threatened two U.S. allies – South Korea and Japan- and could potentially reach America’s west coast” (page 423)

In response, the West Coast defense system consists of 14 additional ground-based missile interceptors on the West Coast deployed by the Obama Administration adding to the 30 interceptors deployed since 2004 in California and Alaska. These missiles are capable of shooting down incoming missiles in space.

North Korea (officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or DPRK) stated officially in 2009 it developed a nuclear weapon, and stockpiled a small number of nuclear weapons.

NOTE: North Korea may also have a chemical and/or biological weapons capability.

Directions

1. Review the “Report to Congress on Military and Security Development Involving the DPRK.”

http://archive.defense.gov/pubs/Report_to_Congress_on_Military_and_Security_Developments_Involving_the_DPRK.pdf

2. If deterrence worked during the Cold War, could it now work against a new nuclear state like North Korea? In the cost-benefit calculation, do the costs of a U.S. deterrent strategy outweigh the benefits of North Korea‘s nuclear strike capability?

3. Use information from your text to address the “Security Dilemma” states like North Korea face as they build arms to become more secure, and Henry Kissinger’s “Absolute Security Theory” – “Absolute security for one power means absolute insecurity for all others.”

4. Write a one-page response focusing on Deterring North Korea.