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Effect of Prior Information on String Length Estimates
Author(s) -
Franklin Christine A.,
Mulekar Madhuri S.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2004.00171.x
Subject(s) - string (physics) , reliability (semiconductor) , computer science , statistics , econometrics , information retrieval , mathematics , data mining , data science , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , mathematical physics
Summary This article describes an activity through which students collect data and explore ways to display them through graphs and charts. It also motivates various summary measures for location, spread and shape. Finally, it gives an introduction to concepts of validity, reliability and unbiasedness.