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Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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398
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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Abstract - #306425 |
Title:
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Bus Arrivals and Bunching: A Data-Collection and Analysis Project
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Author(s):
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Robert Adam Molnar*+
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Companies:
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Bellarmine University
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Address:
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1859 Rutherford Ave Apt 2, Louisville, KY, 40205,
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Keywords:
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class project ;
data collection ;
regression ;
hypothesis testing ;
education
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Abstract:
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Finding suitable projects for introductory courses that blend real-world data with relevant questions and feasible instructor effort is often difficult. This paper describes one such project - tabulating the intervals between bus arrivals. By including data gathering, descriptive statistics, hypothesis tests, and regression, it covers most of the topics in a first course. This paper describes the genesis of the project, classroom implementation, analysis results for the student-generated dataset, and adaptations available for other classes and course sizes.
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