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Activity Number:
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86
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 7, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #304970 |
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Title:
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Spanning the Parametric/Nonparametric Divide
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Author(s):
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John Holcomb, Jr.*+
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Companies:
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Cleveland State University
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Address:
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2121 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, 44115-2214,
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Keywords:
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parametric statistics ; nonparametric statistics ; statistics education
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Abstract:
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This paper will address the difficult issue of teaching a second course in statistics with current statistics textbooks. Currently, students learn of parametric tests early in the book, and the nonparametric tests are relegated to the last chapter. In this session, I advocate having students in a second course learn the graphical and statistical tests for normality and testing hypothesis for means with both parametric and nonparametric tests. The second course is an opportunity to reteach the parametric methods taught too quickly in a first course and compare them with their nonparametric counterparts.
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