LeBron James of the Miami Heat hit 765 of his 1354 field goal attempts in the 20122013 season for a shooting percentage of 56.5%. Over the lifetime of LeBron’s career, can we say he is more likely than not to make a fi eld goal? a. Describe the parameter of interest.
b. Is 56.5% a parameter or a statistic?
c. What value would the chance model assign to the parameter from (a)?
d. Describe how you would use coin flipping to simulate the 20122013 season under the assumption of the chance model.
e. What would be a typical value from a repetition of 1,354 coin flips? Justify your answer.

Erika is a human resource manager at bluetel inc., a software company. she receives a call from an hr manager at another software company asking about marshall, a software engineer who used to work at bluetel and has applied for a job at the caller's company. erika checks the company's records and sees that a coworker had accused marshall of racial discrimination, but an investigation did not turn up any evidence to support the charge. marshall left the company two months later, saying he was no longer comfortable there. erika is concerned about sharing the details of this situation with the caller. if telling the information to the caller leads to the other company not hiring marshall, what potentially unlawful behavior could marshall accuse bluetel of engaging in?

Use the position statement you used earlier and the ideas you gathered, and write an editorial that is one paragraph in length. include your position statement and supporting ideas.

Which statement is a good description of a model? a) models are a description of nature based only on one or two variables. b) models are testable ideas but they are not very to most people. c) models are a description of nature that predicts more accurately than real events. d) models are an approximiation of a real system that omits all but most essential variables in a system.