follow-up

(verb)

to take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication

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Examples of follow-up in the following topics:

  • Following Up

    • Regular follow up is an integral part of good customer service.
    • Critical to the process is the person that does the follow up.
    • Some customers prefer more follow up while others require little or no follow-up.
    • The type of follow up is also important; a call, a note, a visit or an email.
    • The time frame in which the follow up takes place also impacts the experience.

  • Interview Followup

    • Content analysis is an essential part of the follow-up, in order to summarize who said what and when.
    • Content analysis is an essential part of the follow-up to any type of interview.
    • The different methods of interviewing will require different methods of follow-up to capture the content and prepare it for use.
    • Explain how the different interview methods influence content analysis during follow-up

  • Further Discussion of ANOVA

    • Due to the iterative nature of experimentation, preparatory and follow-up analyses are often necessary in ANOVA.
    • Because experimentation is iterative, the results of one experiment alter plans for following experiments.
    • A statistically significant effect in ANOVA is often followed up with one or more different follow-up tests.
    • Follow-up tests are often distinguished in terms of whether they are planned (a priori) or post hoc.

  • Papanicolaou Test

    • More frequent Pap smears may be needed to follow-up after an abnormal Pap smear, or after treatment for abnormal Pap or biopsy results, or after treatment for cancer.
    • Since the introduction of the Pap test, deaths caused by carcinoma of the cervix have been reduced by up to 99% in some populations wherein women are screened regularly.
    • A regular program of pap smear screening, with appropriate follow-up, can reduce cervical cancer incidence by up to 80%.
    • Failure of prevention of cancer by the Pap test can occur for many reasons, including not getting regular screening, lack of appropriate follow up of abnormal results, and sampling and interpretation errors.
    • About one-quarter of U.S. cervical cancers were in women that had an abnormal Pap smear, but did not get appropriate follow-up (woman did not return for care, or clinician did not perform recommended tests or treatment).

  • Optional Collaborative Classrom Exercise

    • Do the following exercise collaboratively with up to four people per group.
    • Find a population, a sample, the parameter, the statistic, a variable, and data for the following study: You want to determine the average (mean) number of glasses of milk college students drink per day.

  • Types of Motion

    • For example, the following two voices both move up by a step.
    • For example, the following two voices both move down, but the upper voice moves by step while the lower voice moves by leap.
    • In contrary motion, two voices move in opposite directions—one up, the other down.

  • Evaluating goodness of fit for a distribution

    • For example, consider the following changes in price, their new labels of up and down, and then the number of days that must be observed before each Up day:
    • Here each up day (Up) represents a success, and down (D) days represent failures.
    • Under this hypothesis, the number of days until an Up day should follow a geometric distribution.
    • Since we know the number of days until an Up day would follow a geometric distribution under the null, we look for deviations from the geometric distribution, which would support the alternative hypothesis.
    • If the observed counts follow the geometric model, then the chi-square test statistic $X^2$ = 15.08 would closely follow a chi-square distribution with df = 6.

  • Polymers

    • For more information on Staudinger, click on the following link (http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?
    • In contrast to the prevailing rationalization of these substances as aggregates of small molecules, Staudinger proposed they were made up of macromolecules composed of 10,000 or more atoms.
    • Recognition that polymeric macromolecules make up many important natural materials was followed by the creation of synthetic analogs having a variety of properties.
    • Some important examples of these substances are discussed in the following sections.

  • Practice 1: Goodness-of-Fit Test

    • The following data are real.
    • The cumulative number of AIDS cases reported for Santa Clara County is broken down by ethnicity as follows: (Source: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Santa Clara County, Santa Clara County Public Health Department, May 2011)
    • The percentage of each ethnic group in Santa Clara County is as follows:
    • If the ethnicity of AIDS victims followed the ethnicity of the total county population, fill in the expected number of cases per ethnic group.
    • Perform a goodness-of-fit test to determine whether the make-up of AIDS cases follows the ethnicity of the general population of Santa Clara County.

  • Inadequate or incorrect marketing, cooperation, finance, or HR strategies

    • Many of the following issues have been introduced in previous chapters.
    • If larger established companies really commit themselves to their junior partners and are successful, then cooperation often ends up with the senior partner taking over the start-up.
    • Start-ups in particular are often undercapitalized.
    • If start-ups fail to consider these points, obstacles to growth are a matter of course.
    • If this does not happen, start-ups face a growth barrier which is hard to overcome.