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Water Quality Statistics
Author(s) -
Hodgson Ted,
Andersen Lyle,
RobisonCox Jim,
Jones Clain
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.1467-9639.2004.0134a.x
Subject(s) - statistics , context (archaeology) , water quality , sampling (signal processing) , quality (philosophy) , trace (psycholinguistics) , computer science , mathematics , geography , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , filter (signal processing) , epistemology , computer vision , biology
Summary Water quality experiments, especially the use of macroinvertebrates as indicators of water quality, offer an ideal context for connecting statistics and science. In the STAR program for secondary students and teachers, water quality experiments were also used as a context for teaching statistics. In this article, we trace one activity that uses virtual streams and repeated sampling to develop the notion of a hypothesis test for one proportion.