what is a white paper in terms of policy analysis?
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It's a statement of policy.  It's meant to be authoritative and is used as a basis for future regulations and laws although it has no legal standing in and of itself.
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SPSS...\n\nSPSS for Windows provides you with a broad range of capabilities for the entire analytical process. With SPSS, you can generate decision-making information quickly using powerful statistics, understand and effectively present your results with high-quality tabular and graphical output, and share your results with others using a variety of reporting methods, including secure Web publishing. Results from your data analysis enable you to make smarter decisions more quickly by uncovering key facts, patterns, and trends. An optional server version delivers enterprise-strength scalability, additional tools, security, and enhanced performance\n\nSPSS for Windows is a modular, tightly integrated, full-featured product line for the analytical process—planning, data collecting, data access, data management and preparation, data analysis, reporting, and deployment. Using a combination of add-on modules and stand-alone software that work seamlessly with SPSS Base enhances the capabilities of this statistics software. The intuitive interface makes it easy to use—yet it gives you all of the data management, statistics, and reporting methods you need to do a wide range of analysis.\n\nYou can use SPSS for Windows in a variety of areas, including:\n\nSurvey and market research and direct marketing \nAcademia \nAdministrative research, human resources, and resource planning \nMedical, scientific, clinical, and social science research \nPlanning and forecasting \nQuality improvement \nReporting and ad hoc decision making \nEnterprise-level analytic application development
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Cost-benefits analysis is the process of weighing the total expected costs vs. the total expected benefits of one or more actions in order to choose the best or most profitable option.\n\nOften, this involves monetary calculations of initial expense vs. expected return. For example, a product manager may compare manufacturing and marketing expenses to projected sales for a proposed product, and only decide to produce it if he expects the revenues to eventually recoup the costs.\n\nDuring cost-benefit analysis, monetary values may also be assigned to less tangible effects such as risk, loss of reputation, market penetration, long-term strategy alignment, etc. This is especially true when governments use the technique, for instance to decide whether to introduce business regulation, build a new road or offer a new drug on the state healthcare. In this case, a value must be put on human life or the environment, often causing great controversy.\n\nCost-benefit calculations typically involve using time value of money formula. This is usually done by converting the future expected streams of costs and benefits to a present value amount.
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Well first, there is an enourmous amount of data to interpret. Then, there's the inter-relationships between the data to correlate (e.g Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index to other inflationary indicators). All of this analysis is likely done by scientists- and there is some esoteric stuff as well- then the policy advisor takes all this vast information from the scientist and considers economic policy. There are two basic types of policies: monetary and fiscal and usually they try to work in conjunction with one another. \nOverall the economy is comprised of C=Consumer Spending G=Government Spending I=Industry spending X-M (Imports-Exports which is trade).\nSO, economic policites would look at all of the above and set interest rates, or determine whether to advise an increase in government spending, or in some cases, create trade tariffs...\nBut underlying all this policy is obviously intense political pressure.
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SRS is Software Requirements Specification. Requirements analysis, in software engineering, is a term used to describe all the tasks that go into the instigation, scoping and definition of a new or altered computer system. Requirements analysis is an important part of the software engineering process; whereby business analysts or software developers identify the needs or requirements of a client; having identified these requirements they are then in a position to design a solution.
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You can find copies, spreadsheets, and some analyses as well as other links at the U.S. Office of Managment and Budget here: \n2006 - http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/\n2007 - http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/\n\nHave fun!
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In the  Analysis of Knowledge, we model a knowledge source in such a way that we can analyze its usefulness, its weaknesses and its appropriateness within the organization. Knowledge Analysis is a necessary step for the ability to manage knowledge.\n\ndefines the   conditions that are necessary and jointly sufficient for propositional knowledge: knowledge.
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I guess you mean technical analysis for securities with respect to investment decisions. If you are new to finance, I recommend this link: http://www.investopedia.com/university/technicalanalysis/
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http://abstracts.aspb.org/pb2004/public/P28/7904.html\n\nhttp://www.nio.org/jsp/analytical.jsp
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HEHEHHEEHEEEEEEEE is it a standard protocol or a Govt policy that you wanna be so sure!
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Try this, it is the best page:\nhttp://theultimates.com/white/
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These are guesses only ..... to the first question I would guess "services" - think education, health care, travel, food industry, hotels, tourism, etc.\n\nTo the second question I would guess analyzing facts - that makes most sense to me.  \n\nHope this helps.
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fiscal policy equals to your potential try going to http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?&name=news/state/budget to help you understand
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From the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Narrative essay is a fictional story in most cases.\nResearch paper is usually based on fact and involves some searching rather than creating material.
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That's too broad a question to have a simple answer. Further, the "best" policy analysis is a judgment most often colored by one's political perception.
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The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management is affiliated with almost all graduate public policy schools in the U.S. The information provided here is to help students who are thinking about pursuing a degree at one of these programs. \n\n^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n\nCheck out:  Employment Opportunities in Politicial Science\n\n^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n\n The American Political Science Association is cautiously optimistic on employment\nprojects for political science graduates. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that employment for social scientists\nwill grow. Openings for lawyers and legal support staff such as paralegal will increase. While the openings in\nbusiness and industry may be more limited, there will be a good job market for those who have developed computer\nor statistical skills. While openings in federal, state or local government are hard to predict, those who obtain\nsummer internships can improve their job possibilities in this area.