Around the middle of last March, you grappled with the decision of whether (or not) to attend spring/summer classes. The question of whether to attend classes, or not, represents which stage of the decision making process?

Supervisor Ajax sat in the office and pondered an interesting realization. While Ajax can set the compensation and approve vacation for the sales team, the sales team has all the direct relationships and in-depth knowledge of the company’s customers. The sales team has ______________ power.

After completing a particularly difficult mid-term exam, one of your classmates approaches you to join them and a group of others in approaching the instructor to request a ‘do over’. You recognize this as ______________.

Your patient has a UTI caused and the cultured organism is E. coli.  What medication would you or order and why?

Answer these questions to the best of your understanding. There is a 60-minute time limit. Each question is worth 5 points. Scoring is based on:Completeness of answer in reference to the questionAccuracy of answer in reference to the questionProfessionalism. Please write in complete sentences. You will not provide formal references as you cannot use resources, but you may mention names of sources that you used to inform answers as you studied.

Use the dataset highschool_exam2.sav for the next two questions. We are interested in whether GPA increases or decreases as students progress through high school. In order to examine this question, we obtained GPAs from 24 children at age 15 (GPA15) and then the same children again at age 17 (GPA17). Do students’ GPAs change significantly between the ages of 15 and 17?  Perform a paired-samples t-test to evaluate this question. Upload your output file (.spv) showing this test.

It will all be worth it in the end.

20 patients with chronic arthritis pain were given a new treatment to alleviate the pain. The same patients were tested at 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months after first receiving treatment. At each assessment point, patients indicated level of pain from 0 (no pain) to 10 (severe pain). What statistical test would be used to examine whether the new treatment was effective at reducing arthritis pain over time?

High school attendance study A high school conducts an experiment to test if there is a difference between the number of times their students are absent in the fall compared to the winter months.   You have data for the following 5 students:   Data STUDENT FALL WINTER 1 3 2 2 4 3 3 2 2 4 2 1 5 1 0   What do you conclude about this school’s absences? (Assume standard

What was the critical value you used for the high school attendance study? (Write down the full critical value, to the decimal points available on the table)