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Quantitative Methods

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Dear : American Intellectual Union (AIU)

This memo is to inform AIU of vital information that will be shared in the next business meeting. This is memo will provide percentages and counts based upon the probability and distributions of various phases of the organization.

Overview of the data set

It will provide an overview of mean, median, mode for various sets of data. Also, it will seek prove the prediction of the quantitative occurrences and investigate the qualitative occurrences. There were several categories used to prove predictions based on the given data set. The areas used for the quantitative factors were gender, age, tenure, department and extrinsic. The areas used for the qualitative factors were age, job satisfaction, gender, department, tenure and intrinsic.

Use of statistics and probability in the real world

As a Deputy it is the responsibility of the officer to keep track of the inmates as they go and come throughout the day. Therefore if a pod officer have 22 inmates and 12 goes to court the other 10 should be accounted for. Then medical calls for 2 inmates to come to medical and 5 inmates returns from court there should be 13 inmates in the pod. At the end of the day the final count is conducted and there are 18 inmates in the pod where are the other inmates? Well 2 inmates are still in medical and there are 2 inmates still in court. How does the pod officer know where they are? Well according to the print-out all inmates are accounted for and the computer still show the other inmates booked to the location in which the print-out shows them to be.

There is another one: A woman is pregnant for 266 days. Who said so? She carried her baby for ten months and five days, there was no doubt because she knew the exact date that her baby was conceived. Her husband is in the Navy and it couldn't have happened any other time because she only saw him for one hour, and she did not see him again until the day before their baby was born. She said that she did not drink or run around, and there was no way this baby is not his now she need help retracting about the 266 day carrying time or otherwise she is in big trouble (Cryer & Cobb, 1997).

Distributions

In a distribution table one can find the mean, median and the mode as well as probability.

Gender

Gender Percentage

Females 36%

Males 64%

Tenure by Gender

Under 2 years 2-5 Years Over 5 years

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