1) Find the appropriate measure of center. Discuss why the chosen measure is most appropriate. Why did you decide against other possible measures of center? 2) Find the appropriate measure of variation. The measure of variation chosen here should match the measure of center chosen in Part 1. 3) Find the graph(s) needed to appropriately describe the data. These may be done by hand and inserted into the Word document. 4) Define a random variable (X) so that your chosen data set represents values of X. 5) Is your chosen random variable discrete or continuous? Explain how you know. 6) Would the Normal or Binomial distribution be a good fit for the underlying sample distribution of X? If one of them is a good fit, state how you would approximate the distribution parameters. 7) Calculate the probability that a flight will depart early or on time. 8)Calculate the probability that a flight will arrive late. 9) Calculate the probability that a flight departs late or arrives early. 10 ) Assume now that the random variable X = Arrival Time is exactly normally distributed with mean, mu = -2.5, and standard deviation, sigma = 23. Compute the probability of a flight arriving late based on this new information. Does this contradict your answer from Part 8?

Screening tests for genetic issues can be performed in the first trimester, second trimester or both trimesters. Carrier testing is also an option performed prior to or during pregnancy. Carrier testing provides information as to whether one or both parents are carriers for certain inherited disorders. The results of these tests are used to determine an appropriate plan of care for the patient.

Genetic testing of the fetus and the parents offer both opportunities and ethical challenges. As a Registered Nurse, you need to be aware of your own feelings to provide non-biased professional support.

Compose a response to the following:

Implications of genetic testing and the role of the registered nurse in providing support to a couple seeking guidance. Provide one example of how genetic testing is used in the reproductive (preconception, conception, pregnancy) setting.

Consider if the registered nurse has the right to refuse to care for patients who choose termination of a pregnancy based on genetic testing when it conflicts with the ethics and values of the nurse.

Discuss how medical, economic, or psychosocial issues might impact decision making relative to genetic testing.

Base your initial post on your readings and research on this topic. Your initial post must contain a minimum of 250 words. References, citations, and repeating the question do not count towards the 250-word minimum.

1. What is a contingent liability? (preferably in your own words; if you copy and paste, indicate source and page/slide number)

2. Why should the auditor contact the legal counsel (lawyer) about contingent liabilities? (answer in your own words, not the explanation to C below)

Look at the explanation for wrong answer D below.

3. Define the word accrued in the context of a contingent liability.

4. Bonus for max points: What is another term accountants use that has the same meaning as accrued in this context?

5. In the context of contingent liabilities, what does probable mean? Also give an example.

6. In this context, what does reasonably estimated mean? Also give an example.

7. Under what circumstances should a company accrue a contingent liability? Use some of the terms you have described above to answer this question. Also give an example.

8. Under what circumstances should a company disclose, but not accrue, a contingent liability? Use some of the terms you have described below to answer this question. Also give an example.

9. When accountants use the term disclose, what does that mean?

10. If a contingent liability is accrued, then it must also be disclosed, but not necessarily vice versa. True or False? Explain.

Challenges in Long-Term Care Your instructor will assign you a research article relating to the current challenges in the long-term care continuum and their impact on the current long-term care industry.

The research paper that I have chosen is at this link:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193350/

The Changing Face of Long-Term Care

Bruce C. Vladeck, Ph.D., Nancy A. Miller, Ph.D., and Steven B. Clauser, Ph.D.

Read the assigned research paper and after you have completed your review, create a Microsoft Word document addressing the main challenges discussed in the paper. Be sure to incorporate the following:

- Introduction and background of the research paper

- Stakeholders interested in the study

- Challenges in the long-term care continuum

- Impact of the challenges on the long-term care system (specifically on staffing, funding, and regulation)

- Recommendations to address the challenges

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Submission Details: Your assignment should be addressed in a 2- to 3-page document.

Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Due Date May 23, 2018 11:59 PM

Introduction/Discussion Task: Often, business decisions involve choosing between alternative courses of action, and companies tend to want to find the alternative that offers the highest revenue or the most significant reduction in costs. Non-routine decisions use differential analysis. These include make-or-buy choices, whether to retain or drop a product line, or even if a customer should be retained or dropped. In using differential analysis, common revenues and costs are factored out of the assessment, thereby focusing on revenue and cost information that is specific to a given product, customer, or another point to be analyzed. Use the basic knowledge acquired from differential analysis to respond to the following discussion task: Continuing with the company selected in Unit 2, think about the types of financial data that would be included and excluded in differential analysis. Propose which specific revenues and costs should be considered in an evaluation to drop or keep a: Customer Product line In addition, explain sunk and opportunity costs as they relate to your selected company. Should these costs be considered in differential analysis? Why or why not?

Note: Your discussion should have a minimum of 2 450 words. Please include a word count. Following the APA standard, use references and in-text citations from the textbook and any other sources.

At the beginning of the year, Robinson County acquired a new storage building under a capital lease agreement.

An initial payment of $700,000 is made to start the lease with four subsequent payments for the same amount at the end of each year starting in late 20X7.

The total lease payment amount for the duration of the lease is $3,500,000.

The present value of the lease at the inception is $3,485,000, including the initial payment. The county borrowed the funds for four years at an annual interest rate of 7%.

At the creation of the lease, the building’s fair value is $3,700,000.

Required:

Evaluate the classification of the building as a capital lease. Discuss if this is the proper classification and how you concluded on this classification.

Prepare the journal entries in the capital projects fund, the debt service fund, and the governmental activities journal for the beginning of the lease.

Prepare the journal entries in the debt service fund and governmental activities journal for the end of the initial year payment.

At the end of the initial year, what financial statement(s) would be prepared to show the assets and the liabilities pertaining to the capital lease? What is the total that would be reported in the liability section of this financial statement?

Paper Requirements:

Submit your responses to the questions in a 3-5-page Microsoft Word document. Label each question clearly. Include computations in a table and show work.

For written answers, ensure your responses are well-written.

Complete the following chapter review exercise out of your textbook:

• Exercise 2 (a–i), p. 338

In this exercise, you will practice the steps of working through a hypothesis–testing problem.

You will submit a Microsoft Word document with your answers to the questions.

2. In a study of smokers who tried to quit smoking with nicotine patch therapy, 39 were smoking on year after the treatment, and 32 were not smoking one year after the treatment (based on data from “high dose nicotine patch therapy, “by Dale et al. Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol 274, No 17). We want to use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that among smokers who try to quit with nicotine patch therapy, the majority are smoking a year after the treatment.

1. What is the null hypothesis
2. What is the alternative hypothesis
3. What is the value of the standard score for the sample proportion?
4. What is the critical value?
5. What is the P-value?
6. What do you conclude? (Be sure to address the original claim that among smokers who try to quit with nicotine patch therapy, the majority are smoking a year the treatment.)
7. Describe a type I error for this test
8. Describe a type II error for this test
1. What is the P-value if the claim is modified to state that the proportion is equal to 0.5?

1. Practice with the best case:You are the central banker, and you have to decide how fast the money supply should grow. Your economy gets hit by the following AD shocks and your job is simply to neutralize them: Just push money growth in the opposite direction of the shock. In all of the following cases, assume that there’s no change whatsoever to the potential growth rate, and assume that before the shock, you’re at your optimal inflation rate and optimal real growth rate. (Yes, this really is the best case!) These are all shocks, so think of each case study as preceded by the word, “Suddenly. . . .” Given the shocks to ?v , should the central bank react by raising money growth or by cutting money growth?

a. Investors become pessimistic about future profit opportunities.

b. State governments increase spending on schools, prisons, and health care.

c. The federal government passes a national sales tax.

d. The federal government increases military spending.

e. Foreigners buy fewer American-made airplanes and movies.

f. American consumers start buying fewer domestically made Hondas and more imported Hondas.

g. Domestically made computers, cars, and furniture all become much more durable and longer-lasting.

Find an article regarding a network problem that occurred in the past 6 to 8 months. Be sure to pick an article that reports on a problem that relates back to a topic covered in class. The problem could be related to security, design, redundancy, etc. (Top Down Network Design)

Choose your article wisely! If you cannot respond to the requirements of the assignment then choose a different article or find supporting articles that will help.

The article cannot be about Heartbleed, Target, Sony or Yahoo!

Imagine that you are a network administrator working for the company in question. Write a one page memo to your manager about the problem and how to prevent it.

Your memo should include the following information:

• A link to the original article

• A brief summary of the problem

o When did the problem occur?

o How did the problem occur?

o Who was affected? o

How many users (or sites or companies) were affected?

o Were specific locations affected? o Were specific users affected?

• An analysis of the effect of the problem on the company or customers.

What are the consequences of this problem?

• Your suggestions on what they could have done to prevent the problem from occurring in the first place OR what they could do to prevent the problem from occurring again in the future. Format: Microsoft Word or compatible document

Instructions: You are not required to use R markdown for the lab assignment. Please include ALL R commands you used to reach your answers in a word or pdf document. Also, report everything you are asked to do so.

Problem 3 :

In lab lecture notes and demo code, I simulated random samples from Exp(1) to verify classical central limit theorem numerically. I also stressed that no matter what type of random samples you use, the standardized partial sum Sn always converge to N(0, 1). In this problem, simulate random samples from the following distributions:

1. Bernoulli(0.5) with µ = 0.5 and σ^2 = 0.25. (Hint: You can use rbinom to generate Bernoulli random numbers.) 1

2. Uniform(0, 1) with µ = 0.5 and σ^2 = 1/12.

3. Possion(1) with µ = 1 and σ^2 = 1.

For each case, set simulation times N to be 1000 and for each simulation, generate n = 2000 random numbers. Report 3 pieces of code, 3 Q-Q plots and your conclusion. To get all the answers, you only need slightly adjust my demo code