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Publication Date: 2005-Nov
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Teaching Students to Use Summary Statistics and Graphics to Clean and Analyze Data
Holcomb, John; Spalsbury, Angela
Journal of Statistics Education, v13 n3 Nov 2005
Textbooks and websites today abound with real data. One neglected issue is that statistical investigations often require a good deal of "cleaning" to ready data for analysis. The purpose of this dataset and exercise is to teach students to use exploratory tools to identify erroneous observations. This article discusses the merits of such an exercise and provides a team project, problem data, cleaned data for instructors, and reflections on past experiences. The main goal is to give instructors a prepared project for their students to perform realistic data preparation and subsequent analysis. The data for this project involve categorical and continuous variables for subjects age 65 and over testing calcium, inorganic phosphorus, and alkaline phosphatase levels in the blood. The project described in this article involves summary analysis, but the cleaned data could also be used for projects on independent samples t-tests, analysis of variance, or regression. (Contains 1 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Error Correction, Context Effect, Student Projects, Teamwork, Statistical Analysis, Test Items, Investigations, Textbooks
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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