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J. E. Borgert – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Foundations of statistics research aims to establish fundamental principles guiding inference about populations under uncertainty. It is concerned with the process of learning from observations, notions of uncertainty and induction, and satisfying inferential objectives. The growing interest in predictive methods in high-stakes fields like…
Descriptors: Statistics, Research, Logical Thinking, Statistical Inference
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Bakker, Arthur; Ben-Zvi, Dani; Makar, Katie – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2017
To understand how statistical and other types of reasoning are coordinated with actions to reduce uncertainty, we conducted a case study in vocational education that involved statistical hypothesis testing. We analyzed an intern's research project in a hospital laboratory in which reducing uncertainties was crucial to make a valid statistical…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Case Studies, Statistics, Hypothesis Testing
Imbens, Guido W.; Rubin, Donald B. – Cambridge University Press, 2015
Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two world-renowned experts present statistical methods for studying such questions. This book starts with the notion of potential outcomes, each corresponding…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Statistics, Social Sciences
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Rosmaniar, Widhyanti; Marzuki, Shahril Charil bin Hj. – Higher Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study is to look closely at how aspects of instructional leadership, and organizational learning affect the quality of madrasah in improving the quality of graduate the state madrasah aliyah. The experiment was conducted using a quantitative approach with descriptive and inferential methods, in inferential methods used…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Workplace Learning, Organizational Development