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Using the stationary distribution, calculate the long-run average number of passengers (not requests) in the car. 

_____ is the process of describing some property of a phenomenon, usually by assigning numbers, in a reliable and valid way.

If the observer or mechanical device used to record is obvious to the subjects, the observation is said to be _____.

When a researcher claims that the results of a test market in Atlanta, Georgia will hold in a national rollout of the new product, the researcher is claiming _____.

11.  One of the components of the managerial function of planning is developing a strategic plan for the organization. This is the responsibility of the:

A researcher uses _____ to equally distribute the effects of extraneous variables to all conditions in an experiment.

Which type of validity addresses the question, “Does my measure correlate with measures of similar concepts or known quantities?”

All of the following measure physiological reactions except _____.

Section A (Questions 1 ~ 4): In Alice’s Wonderland, there are six different seasons: Fall (F), Winter (W), Spring (Sp), Summer (Su), Bitter Cold (B), and Golden Sunshine (G). The seasons do not follow any particular order, instead, at the beginning of each day the Head Wizard assigns the season for the day, according to the following Markov chain model:    Thus, for example, if it is Fall one day, then there is 1/6 probability that it will be Winter the next day (note that it is possible to have the same season again the next day).   

In class, we learned how to use QueueingTool.xls. We want to use an MGc model for station A which requires four parameters: lambda, mu, c, and sigma2. Given that lambda is entered as an hourly rate, enter the values of mu and sigma2.  mu = [b]; sigma2 = [d].