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Inferential statistics made fun: stories that boxes of ‘100 paper clips’ can tell
Author(s) -
Roy Sudipta
Publication year - 2018
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/test.12168
Subject(s) - clips , statistics , confidence interval , statistical hypothesis testing , test (biology) , computer science , statistical inference , mathematics education , psychology , mathematics , artificial intelligence , paleontology , biology
Summary The natural experiment proposed in this article extracts three stories from boxes of “100 paper clips”. The activity requires students to apply three lessons from inferential statistics, starting with a hypothesis test and including confidence intervals as well as tolerance intervals.