The practice of quantitative research not only involves statistical calculations and formulas but also involves the understanding of statistical techniques related to real-world applications. You might not become a quantitative researcher nor use statistical methods in your profession but as a consumer, citizen, and scholar-practitioner, it will be important for you to become a critical consumer of research, which will empower you to read, interpret, and evaluate the strength of claims made in scholarly material and daily news.

For this Assignment, you will critically evaluate a scholarly article related to MANOVA.

To prepare

• Search the  Library for a quantitative article that applies MANOVA.

The Assignment

Write a 2-page critique of the research you found in the Library that includes responses to the following prompts:

• Why did the authors select MANOVA in the research?
• Do you think this test was the most appropriate choice? Why or why not?
• Did the authors display the results in a figure or table?
• Does the results table stand alone? In other words, are you able to interpret the study from it? Why or why not?

Professional Context

Master’s level health care practitioners are charged with the  responsibility of constantly scanning the external environment for  shifts in supply of and demand for services. Concurrently, leaders must  examine strategic fit with their organization’s directional strategy and  determine if adjustments need to be made for current service offerings,  updates in equipment, changes in staffing models, and a variety of  other decisions. Each decision that is proposed must be evaluated in  terms of the health care setting as a system, alignment with the mission  and strategy, available internal resources, potential contract and  payer source implications, and the short- and long-term economic effects  at both the micro and macro levels.

Scenario

As an emerging health care leader, the senior management has  requested that you independently research and explore one of the  economic opportunities that may be available in your care setting. This  may be offering a new service line, working to improve a service line  already offered, retiring an outdated or unprofitable service line, or  any other economic initiative that you believe will be of benefit to  your care setting in the short and long term. One example of this is a  recently launched partnership with a local bicycle sharing company. Your  care setting partners with them to host healthy community events that  offer free screenings for early detection of various health issues. This  helps fulfill some of your care setting’s preventive and healthy  lifestyle initiatives, while also potentially driving referrals to other  services provided by your care setting. You have been asked to submit  your proposal in the form of a 2–4 page executive summary that includes  your proposed economic initiative, supporting economic data, and an  analysis of the proposal’s benefits for your department and for the care  setting overall.

Instructions

You have been asked to ensure that your report addresses the following. Note:  The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring  guide. Be sure your work is, at minimum, addressing each of the bullets  below. You may also want to read the scoring guide and the Guiding  Questions: Executive Brief: Proposal of New Economic Opportunity  document to better understand the performance levels that relate to each  grading criterion:

• Propose an economic initiative that presents an opportunity for  your care setting at both the micro (departmental, neighborhood) and  macro (organizational, community) levels, and that you believe will  provide ethical and culturally equitable improvements to the quality of  care.
• Analyze the supply and demand for your proposed economic initiative within contexts relevant to your care setting.
• Explain relevant economic and environmental data that support your proposal and analysis.
• Communicate your economic proposal in a logically structured and  concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar,  punctuation, and spelling.
• Effectively support your proposal with relevant economic data and  scholarly sources, correctly formatting citations and references using  current APA style.

Example assignment: You may use the assignment example,  linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or  higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

Submission Requirements

• Length of paper: 2–4 double-spaced, typed pages. Your paper should be succinct yet substantive.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.
• Resources: Cite a minimum of 3–5 authoritative  and scholarly resources. Be sure to include specific economic data and  support as part of your cited resources.

Post a substantive response to one of the prompts below and be clear about which one you are referring to:

PROMPT #1: ARGUMENT PROMPT. Consider the following argument:

Validity is of no importance. An argument can have false premises and still be valid. In fact, it can have false premises and a false conclusion, yet still be valid. Therefore, there is no connection between truth and validity. Thus, validity is irrelevant to truth and therefore to philosophical inquiry.

How would you reply to this argument? Which statements of the argument are correct and which incorrect?

PROMPT #2: ZENO PROMPT. Zeno’s paradox reveals a mismatch between the way we think about the world and the way the world actually is. The challenge then becomes how to identify what precisely is wrong with our thinking. Motion is possible, of course, and a fast human runner can beat a tortoise in a race. The problem seems to have something to do with our conception of infinity. How would you solve Zeno’s problem? In your mind, is space continuous or discrete? Explain your answer.

And please also provide critical feedback to these two people’s posts.(I’ll post another later)

PERSON 1: (yingshan)

PROMPT #1: ARGUMENT PROMPT:

The correct statements are “an argument can have false premises and still be valid” and “it can have false premises and a false conclusion, yet still be valid.” The in correct statements are “validity is of no importance,” “there is no connection between truth and validity” and “validity is irrelevant to truth and therefore to philosophical inquiry.”

In the lecture, professor uses the example of “women are tiger” to prove the above arguments. Moreover, there is no counterexample in the deductive argument when it is valid. However, one thing cannot happen is that the premises are all true, but the conclusion is false and the argument is deductively valid. On the contrary, a deductive argument is invalid if its preemies are all true but the conclusion is false. Also, even if the premises and the conclusion are all true, the argument may still be invalid, such as the example of “Alvin lives in California.”

For the incorrect statement, truth is based on proposition; however, validity is based on the argument. The proposition is either true or false, and the deductive argument is either valid or invalid. In other words, if the conclusion follows from premises, the argument is valid. Logically, truth is the property of statements, such as premises and conclusions; however, validity is the property of the argument itself.

Validity is important in deductive arguments. The only way to judge whether the argument is soundness is whether the argument is valid and whether the premises are in fact true. If validity is of no importance in deductive arguments, we can never estimate whether a deductive argument is soundness.

PERSON 2:

Prompt #1

I do not agree with the statement that validity is of no importance. Validity can always be used no matter the situation you are in. Most of the time it can help your argument because it gives proof or enhances your argument.  I do agree that there can be false premises and false conclusions yet the argument still be valid because there can be many other reasons for it to be valid. However I do think there is a connection between truth and validity because they need to go hand in hand. Sometimes situations put you in places that do not seem to make sense or does not seem true but does it make it incorrect if it does happen. There are a bunch of situations that can unravel and sometimes things do not go as simple as true or false and valid or invalid. There are many variables that go into these arguments. Both validity and truth can increase the strength of your argument and even if they sometimes may not have a connection that does not mean it is irrelevant in all situations.

A substantive post is generally >180 words and introduces a new idea or is a meaningful response toanother person’s post. When responding to another person’s post, please either expand the thought, addadditional insights, or respectfully disagree and explain why.

Discuss the reasons why nondomestic customers might not be willing to buy products and services from a firm selling in a foreign market and the reasons why nondomestic customers may not be able to buy a firm’s products and services even if they are willing. Include a brief description of how your firm (that you selected previously) would approach selling a product or service in a foreign market.
PART 2.

Describe the “rules” for bidding firm managers that were discussed in the text. How do these rules differ from the “rules” for target firm managers? Include a brief explanation of each of the rules in your answer.
PART 3.

Write a 3 to 5 page paper (750 to 1200 words, not including the cover page and reference page) in APA format in response to the prompts below. Please click here to view the criteria by which you will be assessed for the achievement of the CLO for this unit.

Please use the APA Sample provided in Unit 1 to complete your assignment. In this assignment, you will be assessed on the Institutional Learning Outcome of Quantitative Reasoning. Visit the LIRN to find journal articles that support your positions and cite them using appropriate APA format.

For this case study, use the company you previously selected. Please respond to the following questions:

a.       Describe the conditions, if any, where your business (the one you selected in Unit 1) can expect to earn an economic profit from acquiring a new, strategically related, firm after fending off four other bidders. [Chapter 10 Problem Set Question #1 on page 303].

b.      Your firm is considering the purchase of a smaller firm because it believes that it can manage the assets of that firm more efficiently. The smaller firm has free cash flow. Some researchers have argued that the existence of free cash flow can lead managers in a firm to make inappropriate acquisition decisions. To avoid these problems, these authors have argued that firms should increase their debt-to-equity ratio and “soak up” free cash flow through interest and principal payments. Is free cash flow a significant problem for many firms?

c.       Your firm has decided to begin selling its products in Ghana. Unfortunately, there is not a highly developed trading market for currency in Ghana. However, Ghana does have significant exports of cocoa. Describe a process by which you would be able to sell your machines in Ghana and still translate your earnings into a tradable currency (e.g., dollars or euros).

With the rise of the Internet and social media, information can be disseminated to the public more quickly and efficiently than ever. Increased access to public health information gives individuals the potential to be far better informed than their counterparts in previous generations. What happens, though, when inaccurate information is disseminated? How might inaccurate portrayals of findings adversely affect members of the lay public?

One way to improve the accuracy of the dissemination of epidemiological information is to make sure that research studies are summarized in approachable yet objective ways. This is often done through press releases.

With these thoughts in mind:

Select an epidemiological research article from one of the previous weeks’ Learning Resources. Please note that policy, public health promotion, or opinion articles will not meet the requirements of the assignment this week.

Post a brief description of the research article that you selected.(INCLUDE ARTICLE IN DISCUSSION) Create a press release that accurately reflects the design, findings, and recommendations that can be easily disseminated to the lay public. Explain the most critical element of the study that should be communicated to the lay public. Finally, discuss how the presentation of epidemiological data to the lay public may affect social change.