Tell a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.

I had a hard life with my family being divorced
I struggled but I had God with me
I am from New York but live in Texas
My dad was in Jail
But I became better with the situation and learned to use my problems to help people
I became a better person

R Homework

The vector `problem.1.data` contains numeric data.

Construct a stipchart of the values in `problem.1.data`. Do you see any evidence of any outliers?

**Solution**

Repair this outlier.

* First, report the location of the outlier.

* Next, convert the value to `NA`.

* Finally, display the value of the vector at this location, and show that it has the value `NA`.

**Solution**

Construct a stripchart of the repaired version of `problem.1.data`. Do you see any indication of a -9 being used to represent a missing value?

**Solution**

It’s not best practice to represent a missing value using the value -9, so we need to repair this.

* First, report the location of the element with -9.

* Next, convert the value to `NA`.

* Finally, display the value of the vector at this location, and show that it has the value `NA`.

**Solution**

Construct a stripchart of the repaired version of `problem.1.data`. Do you see any indication of an extreme outlier (i.e. 99999) or a -9 being used to represent a missing value?

**Solution**

Acquisitions

Using the Internet, research acquisitions that are currently underway and choose one of these acquisitions to discuss. Based on the firms’ characteristics and experiences and the reasons cited to support the acquisition, do you feel it will result in increased strategic competitiveness for the acquiring firm? Why or why not?
Of the problems that affect the success of an acquisition, which one do you believe is the most critical in the global economy? Why? What should firms do to make certain that they do not experience such a problem when they use an acquisition strategy?

GDP

Is the GDP Still Accurate in the Digital Age?

GDP is the sum of all income earned in a country during a year. Alternatively, it can be thought of as the value of all production in an economy during a year. But do income and production measure happiness?The way we measure GDP can both overstate and understate peoples happiness and well-being. It understates economic activity and well-being when it does not take into account production that is not exchanged in a market (grandma providing free baby-sitting) and leisure time. It overstates well-being when two otherwise identical activities are measured the same even though one produces more pollution.

Reply to these questions to begin your discussion:

Should we continue to measure GDP as we do now? If you dont think it should be changed, explain your reasoning. If you think it should be changed, what changes would you recommend, and why?