The role of statistics in business

Present study is ascertain to elaborate the role of green supply chain management towards the suppliers’ performance. Further, the role of social capital as a potential mediator is also explored in the Thai business to business (B2B) context. Data was collected by using the survey questionnaires. Different statistical tests for measurement model and hypothesis testing respectively. Findings highlighted that suppliers’ performance both in environmental and operational terms improves due to the GSCM practices.

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Part 1 of ebook "Practical business statistics" provides readers with contents including: introduction and descriptive statistics; probability; statistical inference; defining the role of statistics in business; classifying the various types of data sets; planning ahead for data gathering;...

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In this article, the authors base on the most general methodology of materialistic dialectics and historical materialism and some specific research methods such as analysis, synthesis, statistics, etc, the aim gives an overview of the role and current situation of human resources for socio-economic development, thereby providing a system of perspectives on requirements in building high quality human resources for sustainable development in our country at present.

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This study examines the relationship between perceived, Implemental mindsets and entrepreneurial implementation intention of final year students in HCM City, Binh Duong Province, Dong Nai Province, Ba Ria Vung Tau Province. These relationships were determined by the 438 students who had entrepreneurial intention (or starting or started). The objective of this study extends the Event Entrepreneur model (EEM) by adding the implementation intention factor into the model. This new model was examined by 438 students who had started (or starting) the business.

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Chapter 15 - Chi-square applications, when you have completed this chapter, you will be able to: Understand the nature and role of chi-square distribution, identify a wide variety of uses of the chi-square distribution, conduct a test of hypothesis comparing an observed frequency distribution to an expected frequency distribution,...

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Chapter 1 - What is statistics? When you have completed this chapter, you will be able to: Explain what is meant by statistics, identify the role of statistics in the development of knowledge and everyday life, explain what is meant by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, distinguish between a qualitative variable and a quantitative variable,...

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Design decisions and design management activities contribute to the overall outcome of the design activity, but typically are not accounted for in statistics and studies of the design professions and their role in business. From previous research (Walsh et al 1992), it is clear that significant design decisions are made by non- designers as part of their role, for example Technical Directors, Marketing managers and so on. Elsewhere, this contribution has been cited as ‘silent design’ (Gorb and Dumas, 1987). This contribution has not been covered in this report. ...

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In the next Section II we will describe the nature of the general purpose technol- ogy represented by cloud computing, its genesis and its likely impact on the econo- my and on the structure of many markets. As we will see, the introduction of cloud computing is going to reduce drastically the fixed costs of entry and production, turning part of them into variable costs related to the production necessities. This will have a positive impact on entry and competition in all sectors where fixed ICT spending is crucial.

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Official statistics must be interpreted with care, as changes at the margins of firm size categories may strongly affect size distribution and with that the picture of the role of SMEs in an economy. Wherever possible, data should be collected on a (sub-national) regional basis as the differences in birth rates and growth within an economy, and indeed within a locality or region, may be as substantial as between countries.

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This monograph is an “offspring” of an earlier textbook on Environmental Economics which was published in 2002. It is, however, not just an update or a simple translation of the former German version. Rather, this book includes topics, which played no significant role in public opinion some 10 years ago. Climate change is one of the cross-border environmental issues which has substantially gained importance and public attention over the last decade. From a theoretical point of view, tackling this issue amounts to solving the allocation problems for a global environmental commodity.

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Fisher and Mahalanobis described Statistics as the key technology of the twentieth century. Since then Statistics has evolved into a field that has many applications in all sciences and areas of technology, as well as in most areas of decision making such as in health care, business, federal statistics and legal proceedings. Applications in statistics such as inference for Causal effects, inferences about the spatio- temporal processes, analysis of categorical and survival data sets and countless other functions play an essential role in the present day world.

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