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Publication Date: 2019-Mar
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Inferential Statistics Made Fun: Stories That Boxes of '100 Paper Clips' Can Tell
Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, v41 n1 p25-29 Spr 2019
The natural experiment proposed in this article extracts three stories from boxes of "100 paper clips". The activity requires students to apply three lessons from inferential statistics, starting with a hypothesis test and including confidence intervals as well as tolerance intervals.
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Probability, Teaching Methods, Hypothesis Testing, Manipulative Materials, Computation, Statistical Analysis
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