Scenario. Centres for Disease Control

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health institute of the United States. Its main aim is to protect people health and safety through the control and prevention of diseases. CDC had to rely on doctor reports of influenza outbreaks. CDC was weeks behind in providing vaccines to the affected patients. Using historical data from the CDC, Google compared search term queries against geographical areas that were known to have had flu outbreaks. Google then found forty five terms correlated with the outbreak of flu. With this data, CDC can act immediately.

Questions:

1.    To effectively identify the terms related to influenza outbreaks, Google may need to apply clustering techniques, which type or types of clusters would best fit this application? Please justify your answer.

2.    To better the clustering performance, what configuration of the clustering would you suggest Google to do according to the characteristics of the input data? Please justify your answer.

3.    Another option for Google is to use the classification approach. Please compare the classification and clustering approaches in the context of this scenario, by listing at least three differences between them and the impacts to the sorting process.

1. In cases where the markets are too thin for viable open-market operations, or the monetary base cannot be controlled for some reason, the monetary authorities often attempt to limit the creation of reserves by the banking system through the imposition of, or changes in, reserve ratios against demand deposits and sometimes also against other types of deposits.

Select one:

True

False

2. In the United States, the discount rate is frequently below the market short interest rates; since banks can make a profit from borrowing from the Fed and then buying market instruments, keeping the discount rate below the market rates becomes an incentive for commercial banks to borrow from the Fed.

Select one:

True

False

3. Since the early 1990s, the most common tools of monetary policy in developed economies have been changes in interest rates, supported by changes in the money supply induced by open-market operations and borrowing from the central bank.

Select one:

True

False

4. In the Western economies, changes in the required reserve ratios are now either no longer available as an instrument of monetary policy or not used in practice for this purpose.

Select one:

True

False

1. A researcher wishes to estimate the mean yearly tuition of the population of private universities throughout the United States. A random and representative sample of universities of this type is to be selected to provide the required estimate. To provide estimates of the population mean tuition, what minimum number of universities will be sampled under the following conditions to provide the needed estimate?

1. The estimate desired will need to be computed with 95% confidence to within ±$4,000 when it is felt that the population standard deviation in the tuition amounts is $9,000.

2. The estimate desired will now need to be computed with 90% confidence to within ±$4,000 when it is felt that the population standard deviation in the tuition amounts is $9,000.

3. The estimate desired will now need to be computed with 95% confidence to within ±$4,000 when it is felt that the population standard deviation in the tuition amounts is $10,000.

4. The estimate desired will now need to be computed with 95% confidence to within ±$5,000 when it is felt that the population standard deviation in the tuition amounts is $9,000.

Be sure to provide explanations of your answers. In addition, be sure to comment on any differences you observe in your answers. Give reasons for these differences. Do not use only mathematical justifications as you explain any differences in your answers. Make all comparisons relative to the answer found in the first part of the problem.

Part 1. Using the financial data presented below (in alphabetical order) for Amos Moving Services, Inc., develop a set of financial statements (Income Statement, Retained Earnings Statement, and Balance Sheet) for the year ending December 31, 2017. You must prepare these in accordance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission approved “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles” (GAAP).

The Retained Earnings balance was $180,000 at January 1, 2017, the beginning of the current year.

Part 2. Journalize these transactions for the month of January 2018 for Amos Moving Services:

1/3 Purchased supplies on account. $500

1/5 Recorded services provided on account. $240

1/15 Paid part time receptionist. $400

1/20 Paid telephone bill. $115

1/25 Received cash from customers paying on their account. $350

1/31 Paid for the supplies purchased on account back on 1/3.

The U.S. Census Bureau publishes data on factory orders for all manufacturing, durable goods, and nondurable goods industries. Shown below are factory orders in the United States over a 13- year period ($ billion). First, use the data to develop forecasts for years 6 through 13 using a 5-year moving average. Then, use the data to develop forecasts for years 6 through 13 using a 5-year weighted moving average. Weight the most recent year by 6, the previous year by 4, the year before that by 2, and the other years by 1. Answer the following questions: a) What is the forecast for year 13 based on the 5-year moving average? b) What is the forecast for year 13 based on the 5-year weighted moving average? c) What is the MAD for the moving average forecast? d) What is the MAD for the weighted moving average forecast? e) Which forecasting model is better? Year Factory orders 1 2,512.70 2 2,739.20 3 2,874.90 4 2,934.10 5 2,865.70 6 2,978.50 7 3,092.40 8 3,052.60 9 3,145.20 10 3,114.10 11 3,257.40 12 3,654.00 13

Scenario. Centres for Disease Control The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health institute of the United States. Its main aim is to protect people health and safety through the control and prevention of diseases. CDC had to rely on doctor reports of influenza outbreaks. CDC was weeks behind in providing vaccines to the affected patients. Using historical data from the CDC, Google compared search term queries against geographical areas that were known to have had flu outbreaks. Google then found forty five terms correlated with the outbreak of flu. With this data, CDC can act immediately. Questions: 1. To effectively identify the terms related to influenza outbreaks, Google may need to apply clustering techniques, which type or types of clusters would best fit this application? Please justify your answer. 2. To better the clustering performance, what configuration of the clustering would you suggest Google to do according to the characteristics of the input data? Please justify your answer. 3. Another option for Google is to use the classification approach. Please compare the classification and clustering approaches in the context of this scenario, by listing at least three differences between them and the impacts to the sorting process.

The U.S. Census Bureau publishes data on factory orders for all manufacturing, durable goods, and nondurable goods industries. Shown below are factory orders in the United States over a 13- year period ($ billion). First, use the data to develop forecasts for years 6 through 13 using a 5-year moving average. Then, use the data to develop forecasts for years 6 through 13 using a 5-year weighted moving average. Weight the most recent year by 6, the previous year by 4, the year before that by 2, and the other years by 1. Answer the following questions: a) What is the forecast for year 13 based on the 5-year moving average? b) What is the forecast for year 13 based on the 5-year weighted moving average? c) What is the MAD for the moving average forecast? d) What is the MAD for the weighted moving average forecast? e) Which forecasting model is better? Year Factory orders 1 2,512.70 2 2,739.20 3 2,874.90 4 2,934.10 5 2,865.70 6 2,978.50 7 3,092.40 8 3,052.60 9 3,145.20 10 3,114.10 11 3,257.40 12 3,654.00 13

Medical professionals can find relationships between variables. The more you drink alcohol, the less functionality of your liver. The less carbohydrates a person intakes, the lower their Body Mass Index. Data can be collected and organized as an ordered pair (x, y). The data can be analyzed to determine the type and strength of a correlation and to calculate a regression line in order to make a prediction.

Use the internet to find a data set of ordered pairs. Key terms to search: Free Public Data Sets and Medical Data Sets. Something that is current and in the United States of America, please ? Create a Post: Introduce your Data Set and Cite the Source. Which would be the independent variable, and which would be the dependent variable? Without drawing a scatter plot, would you expect a positive, negative or no correlation? Explain.

Would you categorize your data to have a strong or weak correlation? Why? What would the r2 value tell you about the data that you selected? What is the equation of the regression line? Use the regression line to make a prediction about the data you collected.

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Variables typically included in a multivariate supply function (other than the price and quantity of the item the supply function represents) are prices of other goods that use similar input resources for production, expectations, the number of suppliers, techniques of production, taxes and subsidies, and prices of input resources, weather.  Please answer the following questions about the affect changes in other variables might have on the supply of the item.  These changes will either cause supply to increase (shift right) or decrease (shift left).  Use either word as applicable, for the short answer.

1. Suppose the market price of fuel oil increases (preparing for the winter demand), what will refiners do to the supply of gasoline (which uses the same input resources as fuel oil)?

2. A tariff is a form of trade restriction (that behaves much like a tax).  Suppose the United States imposes a high tariff on imported broccoli.  How might this change the supply of imported broccoli?

3. How will a decrease in the productivity of technology affect the supply of the item being considered, assuming no increase in the availability of manufacturing materials?

4. If the price of an input resource increases (and there are no cheaper substitutes for the resource) then producers of the item the resource is used to produce are likely to ____________________ the amount of the item produced

5. A subsidy is paid to vaccine producers in order to _______________ the supply of vaccine.

MINI CASE: NIKE’S DECISION

Nike, a U.S.-based company with a globally recognized brand name, manufactures athletic shoes in such Asian developing countries as China, Indonesia, and Vietnam using subcontractors, and sells the products in the U.S. and foreign markets. The company has no production facilities in the United States. In each of those Asian countries where Nike has production facilities, the rates of unemployment and underemployment are quite high. The wage rate is very low in those countries by the U.S. standard; hourly wage rate in the manufacturing sector is less than one dollar in each of those countries, which is compared with about $18 in the U.S. In addition, workers in those countries often are operating in poor and unhealthy environments and their rights are not well protected. Understandably, Asian host countries are eager to attract foreign investments like Nike’s to develop their economies and raise the living standards of their citizens. Recently, however, Nike came under a world-wide criticism for its practice of hiring workers for such a low pay, “next to nothing” in the words of critics, and condoning poor working conditions in host countries.

Required: Evaluate and discuss various ‘ethical’ as well as economic ramifications of Nike’s decision to invest in those Asian countries.