Adam
Integrated Marketing Communications: Amazon.com
The goal of this essay, for the Fundamentals of Marketing class at Umass-Amherst, was to “Explain what it means to have “integrated marketing communications”. Include issues such as how to measure results. Pick a company and describe how you view their use of Integrated Marketing Communications…”. I’ve yet to receive a grade for this paper, […]
One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
The requirements for the fourth written response for my Statistics II course at UMass Amherst was: “Explain in your own terms the test for analysis of variance. What does an ANOVA test? Why is it useful? On what type of data would you apply it? What is the logic behind the test? Why does it […]
Upgrades & Cleanup
There’ll be some changes to this blog in the coming days, mostly in the WordPress theme and general layout of the site. I’ll be re-arranging and consolidating the categories you see in the side-bar to the right, as well as fixing a few things behind the scenes. If anyone has any suggestions, complaints or ideas, […]
Central Limit Theorem
The description for this assignment is as follows: “Given a non-normally distributed population such as the bimodal population which is pictured in figure 6-8, discuss and explain how such a population can have a frequency distribution of sample x-bars as shown in figure 6-9. How does Figure 6-8 relate to Figure 6-9 and then how […]
Logan Airport’s Rainbow Cove Green Parking Garage
Well, I’m just throwing that one post a day standard out the window, eh? [Imaginary Editor’s Note: Adam is not a Canadian although he uses “eh?” quite liberally] Well, breaking news of the sort you’re about to hear makes all standards completely invalid. I’m proud to announce that Boston has set a new world record […]
Similarities and Differences between the Standard Normal (z) and Student’s t Distributions
The requirements for this assignment were to compare and contrast the “…standard normal and the student t, or simply the t distribution. If we use the standard normal when σ [sigma, standard deviation] for the population is known and use the t distribution when σ is not known, explain any differences in the two distributions […]
Freakonomics versus Economics
I usually won’t post twice in a day (or so I say), but a post entitled, What is it about Polish people and lines?, by Steven D. Levitt, co-author of the uber-popular, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, really got me ticked off tonight! Steven recently went on a trip to […]
Finite Population Correction Factor
The assignment for this response was to discuss “…under what circumstances the Finite Population Correction Factor (FPCF) is necessary and why is it necessary? How does the adjusted z-value vary quantitatively (bigger, smaller, much larger, no change) from the normal value?” This was the first written response for my Statistics II class (actually called “Quantitative […]
Oh Crap: I Deleted the Wrong del.icio.us Account!
As you may have deduced from the title, I had two del.icio.us accounts where I stored my bookmarks online for handy reference and storage. Yesterday, I decided to delete one of the accounts as it was mostly a collection of links I had imported into a new account; well, even though I was very careful […]
eBay: Pro Scalping?
I just logged into my eBay account (you’ll see why soon enough) and found this e-mail from eBay’s Government Relations department, sent on April 17, 2007: “Today in your state capital, proposals for legislation are being drafted that claim to support an open market for buying and selling concert or sporting event tickets. But these […]