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Tabor, Josh – Journal of Statistics Education, 2010
On the 2009 AP[c] Statistics Exam, students were asked to create a statistic to measure skewness in a distribution. This paper explores several of the most popular student responses and evaluates which statistic performs best when sampling from various skewed populations. (Contains 8 figures, 3 tables, and 4 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Statistics, Tests, High School Students
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Olsson, Ulf – Journal of Statistics Education, 2005
Methods for calculating confidence intervals for the mean are reviewed for the case where the data come from a log-normal distribution. In a simulation study it is found that a variation of the method suggested by Cox works well in practice. An approach based on Generalized confidence intervals also works well. A comparison of our results with…
Descriptors: Simulation, Statistical Distributions, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Activities
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Hayden, Robert W. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2005
The data illustrate outliers that are not mistakes and not observations that are unusually high or low. The reasons for them are all interesting historically. They illustrate that "outliers" need not be errors but may instead be particularly interesting cases. The data also illustrate that different data displays may differ in their ability to…
Descriptors: Data, Statistical Distributions, Computation, Pattern Recognition
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Mecklin, Christopher J.; Donnelly, Robert G. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2005
In this paper, we consider some combinatorial and statistical aspects of the popular "Powerball" lottery game. It is not difficult for students in an introductory statistics course to compute the probabilities of winning various prizes, including the "jackpot" in the Powerball game. Assuming a unique jackpot winner, it is not difficult to find the…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistics, Games, Game Theory