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- Using Statistics In Decision Making
- Virtually every manufacturing or service company needs to generate forecasts of their short to medium term sales. Think of your sales forecast as an educated guess. Forecasting takes good working knowledge of your business, not advanced degrees or complex mathematics. It's much more art than science. This paper explains statistics...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Measuring Central and Local Government Finances
- With growing interest in central and local government activity, Treasury and Statistics New Zealand have been working collaboratively to develop a set of statistics aimed at explaining this sector of the economy. The basis of these statistics are the International Monetary Fund's standard for Government Finance Statistics GFS, the System...
- White papers 2005-06-19
- Statistics on Real Estate Prices: The Need for a Strategic Approach
- This note considers the strategic issues that arise in connection with the future evolution of statistics on real estate prices and argues for the development of a conceptual framework based on a systematic analysis of user requirements. Such a framework can then be applied in the context of individual national...
- White papers 2005-04-22
- Applied Data Analysis For Process Improvement
- When the author first came up with the idea of intuitive statistics, he had no idea others had already written on the subject. However, as he was to discover, the term intuitive statistics has a variety of meanings. Gerd Gigerenzer and David J. Murray report the term was probably first...
- White papers 2005-02-15
- Teaching Statistics to Medical Students Using Problem-Based Learning
- This white paper provides information on Problem-based learning PBL that is gaining popularity as a teaching method, but statistics and research methods are not being included in this teaching. There are great disadvantages in omitting statistics and research methods from the main teaching. PBL is well established in Australian medical...
- White papers 2004-12-10
- ABS Business Statistics Reengineering and the Impact on Australia's Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics
- In February 2002 the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS took the strategic decision to proceed with a major re-engineering initiative known as the Business Statistics Innovation Program BSIP. This paper summarises the reasons for the development of the BSIP strategy; the BSIP model; progress to date in implementing the model;...
- White papers 2004-10-26
- The International Banking Market
- This BIS report collects and disseminates two different sets of international banking data, both based on information provided by banks. The first set of data is known as the locational statistics. These statistics were originally introduced in 1964 to monitor the development of euro currency markets. The second set, known...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Export Profiles Of Small Land-Locked Countries
- This article discusses case study focusing on the implications for Lesotho. World Bank demographic and country characteristic statistics identify 16 small landlocked countries that are similar to Lesotho. This article attempts to determine what useful policy information can be derived from the recent trade performance of these “comparators” It also...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Statistical Inference
- All statements made in this section are valid only for stable processes, i.e., processes in statistical control. The statistical methods described in this article are enumerative. Although most applications of quality engineering are analytic, there are times when enumerative statistics prove useful. In reading this material, the engineer should keep...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Definitions Of Statistics
- Statistics involves interpreting meaning information from numerical data. It is an effective tool to study the relationship between variability and quality in an organization. It is important for the organization to achieve high levels of quality towards increased productivity and gaining sustainable competitive advantage. Total Quality Management TQM is a...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Uses of the BIS Statistics: An Introduction
- The BIS statistics are referenced by a wide range of users for a wide range of purposes. This special feature focuses on a few of the key analytical uses of the statistics and in particular on how the statistics can be used in a complementary fashion, including for analysis of...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Playing the Numbers: Using ACD Statistics for Workforce Management
- The contact center ACD supplies a potpourri of statistics. Used properly, ACD statistics can be a boon for workforce management forecasting and scheduling. However, the ACD provides so much detail that interpreting the information can be like drinking water from a fire hydrant. This article outlines some relevant ACD statistics...
- White papers 2001-09-14
- Private Equity Statistics Q2 2001
- US fund raising activity dropped sharply in Q2 2001, according to the latest statistics released by the NVCA and Venture Economics. $9.7bn was raised in Q2, down from $16.7bn in Q1. The latest figure represents a 68 per cent decrease compared to Q2 last year when a record $30.3bn was...
- White papers 2001-08-16
- Using Total Quality Management to Improve Spanish Industrial Statistics
- The TQM approach used to produce industrial statistics in Spain is presented in this paper. The starting point is asking customers about our statistics products. Then, specific programs and actions are implemented trying to improve customer satisfaction. The following projects have been launched as a direct consequence of expressed customer...
- White papers 2001-07-24
- Spatial and Distance Statistics of the Trucking and Warehousing Industries Using GIS Tools
- The aim of this paper is to look at the potential of Geographical Information Systems GIS in describing the nature of potential clustering effects. Statistical analyses of trucking terminals and warehousing located in Washington Consolidated Metropolitan Standard Area and Detroit Consolidated Metropolitan Standard Area is carried out using GIS and...
- White papers 2001-07-09
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- Hook & Ladder Brewing Touts Growth
- FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Hook & Ladder Brewing Touts GrowthC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Hook & Ladder Brewing Company, a Washington, D.C.-area venture started by a volunteer firefighter and his business-minded brother, is bucking negative economic trends and experiencing tremendous growth this year, despite...
- Articles 2009-06-08
- Partition-based algorithm for estimating transportation network reliability with dependent link failures
- Evaluating the reliability of a transportation network often involves an intensive simulation exercise to randomly generate and evaluate different possible network states. This paper proposes an algorithm to approximate the network reliability which minimizes the use of such simulation procedure. The algorithm will dissect and classify the...
- Articles 2008-09-22
- Evaluating critical lines and stations considering the impact of the consequence using transit assignment model -case study of London's underground network
- As the problem of full transit vehicles is encountered daily by passengers in most of the big cities, previous research evaluated the consequence of overcrowding in terms of on-board crowding and passengers not being able to board with full vehicles. The impact of overcrowding in the real...
- Articles 2008-09-22
- Robust control of traffic networks under uncertain conditions
- Uncertainty of traffic network operations has been a subject of lively debate in the last decade. However, little effort has been put in developing control frameworks that are not only aimed at improving the average performance of the system, but also at improving the system robustness and...
- Articles 2008-09-22
- Gathering the real data from creative industries graduates one year out
- University student outcome data in Australia is collected via the Graduate Destination Survey component of the Australian Graduate Survey at the referent date three months post-graduation. This timeline gives consideration to graduates to enter directly into traditional vocations. For graduates from non-traditional areas and/or with non-traditional career...
- Articles 2008-09-22
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