Week 5
Discussion Question 1: Death With Dignity Act (Graded)
Discuss the legal and moral implications of physician-assisted suicide. What are the key provisions of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act? What has been the experience with this process in Oregon since passage of the act in 1997?
Discussion Question
2: Schiavo Case (Graded)
Read the account of the 2003 Terri Schiavo case in your supplemental textbook. If you were the CEO of the organization that cared for Terri Schiavo, ..
Week 6
Discussion Question 1: Professional Liability (Graded)How does the existing U.S. legal system, as well as the need for professional liability insurance coverage, impact patient care, physician behavior, and healthcare costs?
Discussion Question 2: Risk Management (Graded)You’ve been appointed as chair of your hospital’s risk management committee. Describe the most pressing issues that should be considered by your committee related to risk management, corporate liability, ethical com..
Week 7
Discussion Question 1: Healthcare Reform (Graded)
Based upon your learning in this course and your own personal and/or professional experiences, what are the essential reforms that must occur in the U.S. healthcare system in order to improve access, cost, and quality of care for all Americans? What does this legislation look like?
Discussion Question 2: Healthcare War Rooms (Graded)
What is a healthcare war room? As CEO of your own healthcare facility, how would you go about..
Week 8
Discussion Question 1: Looking Ahead (Graded)
Class, looking back over the Course Objectives, what are you
looking forward to learn as you move forward with your education and career?..
All Parts of Course Project - Bundled
MATH 533 Week 2 | Course Project | Part A: Exploratory Data Analysis
MATH 533 Week 6 | Course Project | Part B: Hypothesis Testing and Confidence
MATH 533 Week 7 | Course Project | Part C: Regression and Correlation Analysis
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All DQs (Bundled)
MATH 533 Week 1 | DQ: Graphing Data | Media Preference (Version 1) -- $8.00
MATH 533 Week 1 | DQ: Graphing Data | USA Immigration (Version 2) -- $8.0
MATH 533 Week 2 | DQ: Binomial Distribution -- $8.0
MATH 533 Week 5 | DQ: Hypothesis Testing -- $8.0
MATH 533 Week 6 | DQ: Correlation Coefficient -- $8.0
MATH 533 Week 7 | DQ: Reject the Null Hypothesis -- $8.0
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Media Preference (Version 1)For this discussion, you will use VoiceThread technology. Under the Introduction and Resources area there is a link to VoiceThread that includes videos on how to use this technology. For this discussion, first find or create a data set. Then, create a graph from those data. Your post should be a VoiceThread that explains how you created the graph and why you selected the graph that you did. In your responses to other students, discuss the type of data as well as what ..
USA Immigration (Version 2)For this discussion, you will use VoiceThread technology. Under the Introduction and Resources area there is a link to VoiceThread that includes videos on how to use this technology. For this discussion, first find or create a data set. Then, create a graph from those data. Your post should be a VoiceThread that explains how you created the graph and why you selected the graph that you did. In your responses to other students, discuss the type of data as well as what o..
Homework Problems: Questions: 1-8Question 1:Suppose you are given a data set that classifies each sample unit into one of four categories: A, B, C, or D. You plan to create a computer database consisting of these data, and you decide to code the data as A=1, B=2, C=3, and D=4. Are the data consisting of the classifications A, B, C, and D qualitative or quantitative? After the data are input as 1, 2, 3, or 4, are they qualitative or quantitative?A. Quantitative, because they can only be classifie..
Questions: 1-20Q1.Suppose you're given a data set that classifies each sample
unit into one of four categories: A, B, C, D. You plan to create a computer
database consisting of these data, and you decide to code the data as A = 1, B
= 2, C = 3, and D = 4. Are the data consisting of classification A, B, C, and D qualitative
and quantitative? After the data are input as 1, 2, 3 or 4, are they
qualitative or quantitative? Q2.A company tracked all credit card purchases during the year
2005 and ..
Part A: Exploratory Data Analysis
Preparation:
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Open the files for the course
project and the data set.· For each of the five variables,
process, organize, present and summarize the data. Analyze each variable by
itself using graphical and numerical techniques of summarization. Use Excel as
much as possible, explaining what the results reveal. Some of the following
graphs may be helpful: stem-leaf diagram, frequency/relative frequency t..
Homework Problems: Questions: 1 (a to d)
1. Many
primary care doctors feel overworked and burdened by potential lawsuits. In
fact, a group of researchers reported that 64% of all general practice
physicians do not recommend medicine as a career. Let x represent the number of
sampled general practice physicians who do not recommend medicine as a
career. Complete parts a through d.
a. Explain why x is approximately a binomial
random variable.
b. Use the researchers' ..
Questions: 1-8Q1.A finance journal published a study of whether the decision to invest in the stock market is dependent on IQ. Information on a sample of 153,401 adults living in Finland formed the database for the study. An IQ score (from a low score of 1 to a high score of 9) was determined for each Finnish citizen as well as whether or not the citizen invested in the stock market. The following table gives the number of Finnish citizens in each IQ score/investment category. ..
Homework Problems: Questions: 1-8
3.36
The Organization Development Journal (Summer 2006) reported
on the results of a survey of human resource officers (HROs) at major employers
located in a southeastern city. The focus of the study was employee behavior,
namely absenteeism, promptness to work, and turnover. The study found that 55%
of the HROs had problems with employee absenteeism; also 41% had problems with
turnover. Suppose that 22% of the HROs had problems with both absenteeism and
turnov..
Questions: 1-9Q1.The ages of a group of 50 women are approximately normally
distributed with a mean of 47 years and a standard deviation of 6 years. One
woman is randomly selected from the group, and her age is observed.a. Find the probability that her age will fall
between 53 and 62 years.b. Find the probability that her age will fall
between 46 and 54 years.c. Find the probability that her age will be
less than 32 years.d. Find the probability that her age will
exceed 4..
Questions: 1-10Q1.
A random sample of 89 observations produced a mean x = 25.7
and a standard deviation s=2.5.
a. Find a 95% confidence interval
for u.
b. Find a 90% confidence interval
for u.
c. Find a 99% confidence interval
for u.
Q2.
A company wants to test a randomly selected
sample of n water specimens and estimate the mean daily rate of pollution
produced by a mining operation. If the company wants a 95% confidence interval
estimate with a sampling error of 1.1 mil..
Questions: 1-13Q1.A professor at a local
university conducted a survey of 135 businesses in a city to determine what
motivates small businesses to export their products. The CEOs were asked to
respond to the statement? "Management believes that the business can
achieve economies of scale by? exporting" on a scale of 1? (strongly
disagree) to 5? (strongly agree). Summary statistics for the n=135 scale scores
were reported as x=3.83 and s=1.4 In his? study, the professor hypothesized
that if the t..
Part B: Hypothesis Testing and Confidence IntervalsComplete the following four hypotheses,
using ? = 0.05 for each.1. Mean sales per week exceeds 41.5 per salesperson2. Proportion receiving online training is less than 55%3. Mean calls made among those with no training is less than 1454. Mean time per call is greater than 15 minutes
Report Requirements
1) Using the same data set from part A, perform the hypothesis test for
each speculation in order to see if ..
Part C: Regression and Correlation Analysis
Use the dependent variable (labeled Y) and
one of the independent variables (labeled X1, X2, and X3) in the data file.
Select and use one independent variable throughout this analysis. Use Excel to
perform the regression and correlation analysis to answer the following.1. Generate a scatterplot for the specified dependent variable (Y) and
the selected independent variable (X), including the graph of the "best
fit" line. Interpret.2. Determ..
When we reject the null hypothesis and we fail to reject the null hypothesis. Explain both the approaches, using the rejection region and the p-value...
Questions: 1-5Q1.Suppose you fit the first-order multiple regression model Y
= B0 + B1X1 + B2X2 + e to n = 25 data points and obtain the
prediction equation Y = 50.11 + 5.44X1 + 1.33X2. The
estimated standard deviations of the sampling distributions of B1 and B2 are 0.98
and 0.25, respectively.a. Test H0: B2 = 0
against Ha: B2 > 0. Use
Alpha = 0.10. to find this out determine test statistic and P-valueb. Find a 99% confidence interval ..
Question/Answers: You should work each of the following on
your own, then review the solution’s guide. DO NOT look at the solution’s guide
first.1. The following numbers
represent the weights in pounds of six 7-year old children in Mrs. Jones'
second grade class (25, 60, 51, 47, 49, 45). Find the mean, median, mode,
variance, and standard deviation.2. If the variance is 846,
what is the standard deviation?3. If we have the following
data: 34, 38, 22, 21, 29, 37, 40, 41, 22..
Week 4, Week 7 (v1) & Week 7 (v2) Quizzes - Bundled
MGMT 404 Week 4 Quiz
1. (TCO 1) Which document is created during the
initiation phase of a project? (Points : 5)2. (TCO 1) Projects have specific attributes.
Which of the following is not an attribute of a project? (Points : 5)3. (TCO 1) The purpose of a project charter is
to4. (TCO 1) Which document on a project
authorizes the project manager to begin work on the project? (Points : 5)5.&n..
Case Study Read Case Study 3.1: The Keflavik Paper Company is a case
with a problem in determining a project management process for new product development.
Answer The Following Questions:What does this case demonstrate about the effect of poor project screening methods on a firm’s ability to manage projects effectively?How would project portfolio management help to improve the situation at Keflavik?..
Case Study
Read Case Study 2.4: The Widgets ‘R Us case study is a case with a problem of how the company is set up
and how the company will handle operations with its projected growth.
Answer The Following Questions:
You have been called in as a consultant to analyze the operations at WRU. Based on the readings, what would you advise Widgets ‘R Us to do in order to sustain the competitive advantage in the widget market?
What structural design changes might be undertaken to impr..
Due Week 1: Project Proposal/ApprovalEach professor will decide if the course will have project
teams or be assigned to each individual student to complete the course project.
Your professor will notify you of the decision and if the course is going to
have project teams, you will be notified of your team assignment.
If the professor assigns individual projects, your Week 1
assignment will be to:Provide an outline of your proposed project to your
instructor for approval. The project you select w..
Project Scope – 67 Pages
As we have seen this week, project scope creation is very different in traditional project management versus Agile project management.
What advantages and disadvantages can you see with the process of scope creation in the traditional project management world?
What advantages and disadvantages can you see with the process of scope creation in the Agile project management world?
Share your experiences with projects that were created using either Agile or traditional ..
Case Study: Project Management at Dotcom.com – 65 Pages
Read Case Study 5.3: Project Management at Dotcom.com. Dotcom.com is a software engineering and systems
development consulting firm that needs some organizational improvements in the area of project management processes that will cut
cost and potentially increase the profit margin for the company.
Answer The Following Questions:
Discuss how you would begin redesigning dotcom.com’s project management processes to minimize the p..
Due Week 2: Project Charter
Provide a project charter of your selected project in
accordance with the charter template found in Doc Sharing.Please put this in proper business writing format. Consider
me to be your boss. If working in a group, include the updated Statement of
Participation for Week 2, describing how each person contributed to this
project deliverable. Please place the updated Statement of Participation in
your teams’ Doc Sharing area for review. A charter should be a minimum of ..
Project Schedule (Graded)
To develop a schedule for a project, we will use the concept of a project network, which shows work activities taken from the work breakdown structure and is organized according to the logical flow in time and relationships governing when the work will be performed. By combining this network of work activities with estimates of the time duration for performing each of the activities, we can create a schedule for the project work. What types of information can we le..
Agile Schedule Development (Graded)As we have seen, traditional and Agile schedule developments are quite different. Agile project management was originally developed to do software development. Could a traditional process be successfully used to develop a new software program? Why or why not? Could an Agile methodology be used to build a strip mall in your home town? Why or why not? Does it require more or less resources to perform tasks in parallel?…
What that said, what, in your opinion, do ..
Due Week 3: Scope StatementPrepare a scope statement using the template in Doc Sharing. Remember to be tangible, measurable, and specific. Be sure to include all sections required in the Week 2 Lecture. A scope should be a minimum of 10–15 pages long.Deliverables for Week 3:Project Scope Statement (in MS Word)Statement of Participation and status update..
Risk Management (Graded)Assume you have just been assigned to a project risk team composed of five members. Your task, as project manager, is to develop a process for handling risks to the project. Because this is the first time your organization has formally set up a risk team for a project, it is hoped that your team will develop a process that can be used on all future projects. Your first team meeting is next Monday morning. Each team member has been asked to prepare for the meeting by devel..