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Peer reviewedZia, R. K. P.; Schmittmann, B. – American Journal of Physics, 2003
Considers a problem of simple random walks to study distributions of variances. Describes watching a drunk over a period of nights, taking a number of steps per night. Explores the full probability distribution for the variance of the data string and discusses the connection of the results to the problem of data binning. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Data Interpretation, Higher Education, Physics
