Author: Marcelo Fernandes
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Keywords: economics, business, statistics
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2009-01-31
ISBN-10: 8776814815
ISBN-13: 9788776814816

Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Gathering data 1.2 Data handling 1.3 Probability and statistical inference 2. Data description 2.1 Data distribution 2.2 Typical values 2.3 Measures of dispersion 3. Basic principles of probability 3.1 Set theory 3.2 From set theory to probability 4. Probability distributions 4.1 Random variable 4.2 Random vectors and joint distributions 4.3 Marginal distributions 4.4 Conditional density function 4.5 Independent random variables 4.6 Expected value, moments, and co-moments 4.7 Discrete distributions 4.8 Continuous distributions 5. Random sampling 5.1 Sample statisti

Author: Andrew Miles
Publisher: LULU
Keywords: english, translated, verbs, business, spanish
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
eBookDB-ID: ML00732751

500 common Spanish business verbs translated into English for students of English or Spanish

Author: Andrei Parabellum
Publisher: LULU
Keywords: succeed, technology, ways, surefire, business, maximize
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
eBookDB-ID: ML00221516

Businesses of all types and sizes know that innovation is the key to smooth, efficient, and profitable operations. But understanding and evaluating all the available technologies on the market today – and deciding which ones are best for your company – can be an overwhelming task. With thousands of products and vendors to choose from, and dozens of new offerings being introduced every day, many businesses find themselves completely lost.After reading this book, you will have gained vital insight into available tools and technologies, as well as an understanding of how each one can add

Authors:John Dumond, Marygail K. Brauner, Rick Eden, John
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: army, logistics, transformed, paradigm, management, business, velocity
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2001
ISBN-10: 0833027735
ISBN-13: 9780833027733

Velocity management has brought a new way of doing business to U.S. Army logistics, with a renewed focus on the Army customer and a powerful approach for process improvement that cuts across three critical performance dimensions: time, quality, and cost. The goal is to reduce the need for massive logistics resources by increasing the speed and accuracy with which materials and information are delivered. Key logistics processes are defined, measured, and improved continuously, so customers

Author: Elaine Reardon Nancy Y. Moore
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: industry, analysis, economic, businesses, defense, small, department
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833038737
ISBN-13: 9780833038739

Congress has directed that 23 percent of direct federal purchases come from small businesses. As the largest purchaser in the federal government, the Department of Defense (DoD) is key to achieving this policy objective. The impetus for this research was to suggest industries that DoD could target for outreach to small firms. This briefing compares DoD procurement from small businesses with non-DoD federal procurement from small businesses, and it documents the prevalence of small businesses in industries DoD relies upon. The analysis suggests industries for possible outreach efforts and concl

Author: Keith Crane Nathan Chandler
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: opportunities, risks, euro, business, doing
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833038869
ISBN-13: 9780833038869

On May 18, 2005, the RAND Corporation and the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States held a conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on

Author:
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: treatment, small, business, regulatory, special, entrepreneurship, logic, effects, name
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833042041
ISBN-13: 9780833042040

There has been ongoing concern that some regulations, rules, and government policies place a disproportionate burden on small businesses and entrepreneurs. For this reason, small businesses often receive special regulatory treatment, such as exemptions from legislation or extended deadlines for compliance. However, the desire to support small businesses can come into conflict with the interest in addressing the concerns that led to the regulation or policy in the first place. Moreover, it is often unclear whether special regulatory treatment for small businesses is having the intended effect.