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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
Cai, Li; Monroe, Scott – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2014
We propose a new limited-information goodness of fit test statistic C[subscript 2] for ordinal IRT models. The construction of the new statistic lies formally between the M[subscript 2] statistic of Maydeu-Olivares and Joe (2006), which utilizes first and second order marginal probabilities, and the M*[subscript 2] statistic of Cai and Hansen…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Goodness of Fit, Probability
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Zhu, Mu; Lu, Arthur Y. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2004
In Bayesian statistics, the choice of the prior distribution is often controversial. Different rules for selecting priors have been suggested in the literature, which, sometimes, produce priors that are difficult for the students to understand intuitively. In this article, we use a simple heuristic to illustrate to the students the rather…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Probability, Statistical Distributions