Ive been learning analysis at university for the last two terms since i started here and dont understand it at all. I dont know how it all fits together and what we are actually looking for. Can anyone help me?
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maybe you should go to class a few times a week and stop spending all your time drinking and trying to get laid...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_%28statistics%29\n\nThis is a link from Wikipedia. It shows lots of examples along with explanations.
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click on the below link, and choose any one of the results. I would advise reading at least 3 of them to get a feel for theory before choosing one of the walkthroughs.\n\nBest of luck to you!
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A summary tells what happened; an analysis tries to see why it happened, and what it means.\n\nFor a description of literary analysis and some examples, click here:\nhttp://www.goshen.edu/english/litanalysis.html\n\nFor another example, click here, then click on the links for a summary and an analysis of Hamlet:\nhttp://absoluteshakespeare.com/guides/hamlet/hamlet.htm
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I can tell that nobody wants to just do this problem.  There's nothing interesting about it.  It's a typical problem that a stat student does to show understanding.  Get out your textbook and study up how to solve it.
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yeah! wissam is right.  it depends entirely on your purpose... by analysis, we are trying to separate and study the individual parts in order to make conclusion about the whole thing.  and from my interpretation of your question, you mean vertical analysis.\n\nVertical analysis would mean analyzing each component of the income statement, from the revenues section up to the net income.  this would mean comparing the different income statement components with each other.  in this case, you might want to determine the gross profit ratio (Gross profit divided by sales), the operating profit ratio(operating profit divided by sales), the net profit ratio (net income divided by sales).\n\nUnless you want to conduct an audit, there is no need to prepare workpapers or review the G/L accounts.  but you may interview some people within the company to answer some questions such as why costs are so huge and sales are too low or way too high, this might help you with your analysis...
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I've heard very well of Mathematics for Economists -- by Carl P. Simon, Lawrence Blume as a basic calculus book. Forget the "for Economists", calculus is calculus. It is expensive though.
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it's really just another name for probably what you're doing now.  a budget analyst digs into variances between actual and budgeted/forecasted results.\n\nIt's not so much an excel thing as it is an understanding thing.  if you understand the guts of the financials, how they work and what makes them up, you should be fine.\n\nsource - me, i spent the first 12 years of my career in various analyst roles.
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One cool way that I have seen it derived is based on Jayne's Formalism.\n\nAssume we sample process, and measure the mean and standard devation of the samples. There are many possible distributions that will produce those exact mean and standard deviation. \n\nJayne's Formalism chooses the distribution which maximizes the entropy of the distribuiton. This is viewed mathematically as the distribution that makes the minimum number of assumptions regarding the distribution.\n\nI always thought that was kinda cool.
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dimensional analysis is solving a problem by using the units of the terms involved.\n\nfor instance, since volume density has units of mass / volume, you know how to find volume density given a mass and a volume, it would just be: mass/volume = density.\n\na more complicated example force (F) has units of newtons. Newtons can be further broken down into the units (kilogram * meters)/seconds^2\n\nthus, if you know the mass of an object (kilograms), and the acceleration (meters/second^2), you then know how to put the two together to find force, it would just be:\n\nkilograms * (meters/seconds^2)\n\nwhich is mass*acceleration.\n\nthis type of analysis can be strung together to solve more complicated problems.
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It'd help if we knew what level of course you'll be taking.\n\nI enjoyed Walter Rudin's "Real and Complex Analysis".\n\nAdvanced math books are staggeringly expensive; I just looked at Amazon and they want $150 for Rudin's book.  Dover publishing has the least expensive books, and they tend to be the classics in the field, too.  Or maybe you should just buy whatever book you'll be using in the autumn, since you'll have to get it anyway.
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I guess you mean technical analysis for securities with respect to investment decisions. If you are new to finance, I recommend this link: http://www.investopedia.com/university/technicalanalysis/
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I'd say that this is open to interpretation. you are best to ask your teacher or tutor, you cant trust our advice, cos none of us would know for sure.
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Match your wit against some of the best minds, the following website presents puzzles that define the borderline between brainteasers and complex mathematical analysis.  Browse through some of the past questions, some of them don't require extensive mathematical savvy, but are on the high school math, algebra and trigonometry, level.\n\nhttp://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/ponder/
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Everything seems to be used for analysis, to find the mean curve average...TV....Internet.....I beleive you may be right.\n\nBut hey...Cheer up...Humans just aren't that average. Every time they think that they have found the perfect way to market, advertise and co-erce you into buying a chocolate bar, some other spotty face nerd in the future revolutionises the process.\n\nAll of this analysis is just a sea of change and in a hundred years...BAH!...Who's gonna' care.
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Mathmatics and Statistics are a great course of study for analyzing data.  My major was Business Management and Administration, and I am a Quality Manager for a call center.  I analyze quality data and determine trends and areas of opportunity for our agents to improve their customer service skills.\n\nSince you don't like math, look into courses that offer logic and discussion.  By learning how to ask questions and seek out the root answers, it'll help you in analyzing.
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You can start here - with this book from Amazon.com:\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Law-Economics-Third-Introductory-Analysis/dp/0123494826/sr=8-23/qid=1162525412/ref=sr_1_23/104-2383120-7750332?ie=UTF8&s=books