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Bradley, Sean – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
Can individuals guess the gender of a writer based on a sample of his or her handwriting? We administer an electronic survey twice to the same individuals to find out. The resulting data set is interesting to students, rich enough to be amenable to a wide array of activities, and open to a variety of exploratory tacks for statistics students and…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Gender Differences, Student Research, Research Skills
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Vaughan, Timothy S. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
This paper introduces a dataset and associated analysis of the scores of National Football League (NFL) games over the 2012, 2013, and first five weeks of the 2014 season. In the face of current media attention to "lopsided" scores in Thursday night games in the early part of the 2014 season, t-test results indicate no statistically…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Success, Scores, Statistics
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Kern, John C. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2006
Bayesian inference on multinomial probabilities is conducted based on data collected from the game Pass the Pigs[R]. Prior information on these probabilities is readily available from the instruction manual, and is easily incorporated in a Dirichlet prior. Posterior analysis of the scoring probabilities quantifies the discrepancy between empirical…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Probability, Inferences, Statistics