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Teaching Missing Data Methodology to Undergraduates Using a Group-Based Project within a Six-Week Summer Program
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Marron, Megan M.; Wahed, Abdus S. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2016
Missing data mechanisms, methods of handling missing data, and the potential impact of missing data on study results are usually not taught until graduate school. However, the appropriate handling of missing data is fundamental to biomedical research and should be introduced earlier on in a student's education. The Summer Institute for Training in…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Undergraduate Students, Data, Statistics
Modeling Raindrop Size
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Johnson, Roger W.; Kliche, Donna V.; Smith, Paul L. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
Being able to characterize the size of raindrops is useful in a number of fields including meteorology, hydrology, agriculture and telecommunications. Associated with this article are data sets containing surface (i.e. ground-level) measurements of raindrop size from two different instruments and two different geographical locations. Students may…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Meteorology, Weather, Measurement Techniques
How Well Do the NSF Funded Elementary Mathematics Curricula Align with the GAISE Report Recommendations?
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Bargagliotti, Anna E. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2012
Statistics and probability have become an integral part of mathematics education. Therefore it is important to understand whether curricular materials adequately represent statistical ideas. The "Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education" (GAISE) report (Franklin, Kader, Mewborn, Moreno, Peck, Perry, & Scheaffer, 2007),…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Alignment (Education), Probability, Statistics
OkCupid Data for Introductory Statistics and Data Science Courses
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Albert Y. Kim; Adriana Escobedo-Land – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
We present a data set consisting of user profile data for 59,946 San Francisco OkCupid users (a free online dating website) from June 2012. The data set includes typical user information, lifestyle variables, and text responses to 10 essay questions. We present four example analyses suitable for use in undergraduate introductory probability and…
Descriptors: Statistics, Introductory Courses, Data, Educational Practices
SOCR "Motion Charts": An Efficient, Open-Source, Interactive and Dynamic Applet for Visualizing Longitudinal Multivariate Data
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Al-Aziz, Jameel; Christou, Nicolas; Dinov, Ivo D. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2010
The amount, complexity and provenance of data have dramatically increased in the past five years. Visualization of observed and simulated data is a critical component of any social, environmental, biomedical or scientific quest. Dynamic, exploratory and interactive visualization of multivariate data, without preprocessing by dimensionality…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Visualization, Visual Aids, Open Source Technology
Internet Data Analysis for the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum
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Sanchez, Juana; He, Yan – Journal of Statistics Education, 2005
Statistics textbooks for undergraduates have not caught up with the enormous amount of analysis of Internet data that is taking place these days. Case studies that use Web server log data or Internet network traffic data are rare in undergraduate Statistics education. And yet these data provide numerous examples of skewed and bimodal…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Internet, Data Analysis, Statistics