Methods: A descriptive and quantitative retrospective cross-sectional study was made of the main causes for amputations performed in the period from January 1998 to January 2008 in Hospital de Base, São José do Rio Preto in under 15-yearold individuals. Data, including the age of the patient, gender, rehospitalizations or further procedures and the reason for surgery were obtained from hospital...

Statistics is a science that provides precise techniques for collecting and sorting information made easy by tools and methods for further analysis. The object of descriptive statistics, from sample data, is to describe the most important characteristics, by which we refer to those amounts that provide information on the topic of interest which we are studying.

Descriptive statistics is the process of summarizing gathered raw data from a research and creating useful statistics, which help the better understanding of data. According to the types of variables, which consist of qualitative and quantitative variables, some descriptive statistics have been introduced. Frequency percentage is used in qualitative data, and mean, median, mode, standard deviat...

this study aimed at the frequency and type of using cell-phone by high school students. the research method used was a descriptive-survey one. the statistical society included all the high school students in mazandran in 2010-11 academic year. the sample was chosen through multi-stage stratified random sampling method and 383 subjects were selected based on kerjecie and morgan's table. a r...

The main objective of this research is to assess whether UK listed companies comply with the U.K code of corporate governance regarding audit committees and disclosure arrangements. The research also aims at testing whether the companies’ size and board composition affect the management’s decision to comply with the requirements of the U.K code. Data was collected from the U.K listed FTSE compa...