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Bakker, Arthur; Kent, Phillip; Derry, Jan; Noss, Richard; Hoyles, Celia – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
To characterise statistical inference in the workplace this paper compares a prototypical type of statistical inference at work, statistical process control (SPC), with a type of statistical inference that is better known in educational settings, hypothesis testing. Although there are some similarities between the reasoning structure involved in…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis