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Variable vs. Attribute Data: What’s the Difference?

Throughout any project, you’re going to gather up quite a bit of data. Now, this can be broken down into two categories: ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s What-If Analysis with Data Table for data analysis

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...
Simon Fraser University

Specifying Data Dimensions and Variables for a Pie Control

A Pie control can analyze one, two, or three independent variables. The number of data dimensions must correspond to the number of independent variables in the analysis. To set the data dimension, use ...
Houston Chronicle

What Variables Are Needed for Sales Analysis

Business conditions are both competitive and fluid. Increasing, or simply maintaining, sales in these conditions is important. Knowing how sales affects your company through a process known as sales ...
Simon Fraser University

Lesson 7 Gap Analysis with Categorical Variables

The focus of this tutorial is on “associations” between two categorical variables. The scenario we will examine is the following: Are managerial status and gender at the bank related? Naturally, we ...
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Joint Use of DEA and Constrained Canonical Correlation Analysis for Efficiency Valuations Involving Categorical Variables

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 60, No. 12 (Dec., 2009), pp. 1775-1785 (11 pages) The research on efficiency valuations has used two distinct approaches. One is the nonparametric ...
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Bias and Bias Correction in Multisite Instrumental Variables Analysis of Heterogeneous Mediator Effects

We explore the use of instrumental variables (IV) analysis with a multisite randomized trial to estimate the effect of a mediating variable on an outcome in cases where it can be assumed that the ...