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spreadsheets as suitable frontends for add-in based statistical systems. …
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Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed, but it is not clear how often spreadsheet errors lead to bad … even informal review. Others suggest that spreadsheets inform but do not make decisions, so errors do not necessarily lead …
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There is consensus in the literature that spreadsheets are both ubiquitous and error-prone, but little direct evidence …
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Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed, but it is not clear how often spreadsheet errors lead to bad … even informal review. Others suggest that spreadsheets inform but do not make decisions, so errors do not necessarily lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441075
There is consensus in the literature that spreadsheets are both ubiquitous and error-prone, but little direct evidence …
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Teaching probability can be challenging because the mathematical formulas often are too abstract and complex for the students to fully grasp the underlying meaning and effect of the concepts. Games can provide a way to address this issue. For example, the game of roulette can be an exciting...
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The authors’ experiences with a new teaching approach in an introductory statistics course involving some 1200 first year students in South Africa form the context for the development of the ideas in this paper. The paper focuses on the teaching of statistics within a spreadsheet environment...
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Lean manufacturing has been widely adopted by many production companies. Apart from the operational difficulty associated with conversion from a traditional, functional based operation, adoption of Lean manufacturing involves significant organizational transformations. It requires formation of...
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Mass industrial production makes possible significantly to increase productivity of labour and to reduce costs compared to other production systems. In spite of this there are reserves for improvement. The article analyses the production of suction tube and suction modules at the firm Robert...
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We describe a two-stage model of global log and chip markets that evaluates the spatial and temporal economic effects of government-subsidized fire-related mechanical fuel treatment programs in the U.S. West and South. The first stage is a goal program that allocates subsidies according to fire...
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