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Claire Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Data are everywhere. Data collected from samples are often reported in the form of polls, medical studies, and advertisement information and an understanding of sampling distributions and statistical inference is important for evaluating data-based claims (Bargagliotti et al., 2020). Despite the importance of understanding statistical inference…
Descriptors: Novices, Thinking Skills, Sampling, Statistical Distributions
Naian Yin – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Online networks, as digital images reflecting every aspects of real world especially under the current context of information technology, have become the most massive and opulent data source these days, where vast amount of information keeps being produced and transmitted. Their rapid expansion in scale and data volume draws wide attention and…
Descriptors: Sampling, Networks, Topology, Computer Mediated Communication
Strazzeri, Kenneth Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purposes of this study were to investigate (a) undergraduate students' reasoning about the concepts of confidence intervals (b) undergraduate students' interactions with "well-designed" screencast videos on sampling distributions and confidence intervals, and (c) how screencast videos improve undergraduate students' reasoning ability…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Video Technology, Statistics, Logical Thinking
Kraus, Brian W. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to analyze opinions of selected school district stakeholders regarding potentially critical factors in school bond referendum success and failure in Kansas during the years 2004-2007. Of the 72 eligible school districts, one district was randomly selected from each of six groups formed through a stratified random…
Descriptors: Opinions, Elections, Public Relations, Bond Issues