Definition of Baseline analysis?
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A baseline analysis is a measure of the situation now. After changes a new set of measurements is taken and compared with this baseline. The difference between the baseline and the new measurements is the improvement attributable to the changes.
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A measure of change in the universe.\n\nMake an observation or perform an experiment.  For example, pour water out of a glass.  The water is in the glass.  The water is out of the glass.  The water is on the floor.  What is the relationship of the observations you make?  That measure of change can be attributed to the passage of time.
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From the American Heritage dictionary:\nA detailed analysis of a person or group, especially as a model of medical, psychiatric, psychological, or social phenomena. \n\nA detailed intensive study of a unit, such as a corporation or a corporate division, that stresses factors contributing to its success or failure.\n\nYou will find sources for case study examples for business at this site:\nhttp://businessmajors.about.com/od/casestudies/tp/casestudysample.htm\n\nThis site will lead you to case studies in some other areas:\nhttp://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/module1/case_studies.html\ns
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A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation. \nSomething taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation; an assumption. \nThe antecedent of a conditional statement. \nok :-0
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The preliminary investigation, or feasibility study, is a brief study of the problem area.The purpose of this investigation is to define and evaluate the problem at hand quickly, to see if it is worthy of further study, and to suggest some possible courses of action. \nThe main output of this step is the feasibility report.\n\nThe steps involved in Preliminary Investigation:\n  \na) Understand the problems: Analyze the problem statement, Identify affected groups, understand the current system and its interaction with other systems, develop the business profile of the company\n\nb) Project Scope and constraints Identify System Boundaries, and constraints. Identify what is a part of our system and what is to be excluded.\n\nc) Determine Feasibility: The three types of feasibility (Operational Feasibility,Technical Feasibility,Economic Feasibility) must be done. The one that will be done now, is that; the former is done by the SRC, and the later by the System Analyst\n\nd) Estimate time and cost to continue development: This activity involves a complete Project cost and time estimate. Here the analyst will use SW Engineering techniques like FPA, line of code based estimation techniques and others, to give a precise estimate. \n\ne) Present Results and recommendations to Management: This will be in form of a formal document called Preliminary Investigation Report. It will have the following sections: \n\nIntroduction \nSystem Request Summary: This section will include SRF, and a brief discussion on the reasons for a system request \nFindings : This will include the outcome of the fact finding phase. \nRecommendations: This will include System Analyst's recommendations. Each recommendation should be followed by its justification. \nTime and Cost estimates: This will include a detailed calculation of the Time and Project size estimates, and the methodologies used for estimates. \nExpected benefits to the company: This section is the most important section. A non-technical manager may only read this section. In this section the System Analyst must be very convincing. This Manager of the company will probably decided the system's fate based on this section. \nAppendix: Appendix will contain all the supporting documents (e.g. questionnaire, forms etc. ), and definition of all the related terms.
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On the Tools menu, click Data Analysis. \nIf Data Analysis is not available, load the Analysis ToolPak. this is done by clicking Add-Ins. \nIn the Add-Ins available list, select the Analysis ToolPak box, and then click OK. \nIf necessary, follow the instructions in the setup program.\nIn the Data Analysis dialog box, click the name of the analysis tool you want to use, then click OK. \nIn the dialog box for the tool you selected, set the analysis options you want. \nYou can use the Help button on the dialog box to get more information about the options.
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Quantitative Analysis: When you can analyze some property that can be expressed with numbers -- such as, length, weight etc.\n\nQualitative Analysis: When yoy analyse some property that doesn't "really" fall on a numeric scale -- abstract in nature -- such as smartness, beauty.\n\nOften times, abstract properties are expressed on a numeric scale to perform qualitative analysis.
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A line of best fits is a line that has the shortest distance between a set of data points.  This is usually used to make a generally complicated function easy to model since you would be using a linear model.  Generally, a good linear model would be to use a least squares approximation.  This minimizes the total vertical distance between all points on a scattered data plot.
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Explain ABC analysis?\n\nWhat are the factors influence in  fixing  the Re-order level
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Quantitative and qualitative
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the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted. \n\nEach individual person decides on what basis they are going to measure how successful they are.
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SPSS is the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. It is a software program which can help you to analyze data for Social Science research.  It's really useful for Masters and PhD level research.
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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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You would look for a company that does data analysis or data mining. http://metricconsultants.com/ usually it would be some sort of consulting type of firm such as this one.
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You may find what you are looking for here..\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Psychometrics
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Regression analysis is very complicated mathematical/statistic analysis that is very difficult to describe easily.  R-squared is a measure of how closely an investment tracks the S&P 500 or other index.  While I am not a great fan of investopedia.com, they give some answers in this case.\n(These comments refer to investment analysis, regression analysis is also used in other fields.)
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Standard deviation is a measure of the spread of a normally distributed variable. If the variable is not normally distributed, another measure should be used. \n\nRegression is a means of fitting an underlying function (usually a straight line) to a sample that shows a normal distribution around a central value at each point. Usually the independent variables to which the sample is being fitted are assumed not to have errors. For instance , you may fit say income (which varies) to age (which is known for each person in the sample).