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Activity Number:
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511
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 2, 2007 : 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 - #309543 |
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Title:
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Mentoring an Undergraduate Research Project
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Author(s):
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Debra Hydorn*+
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Companies:
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University of Mary Washington
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Address:
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27 Huntington Drive, Fredericksburg, VA, 22405,
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Keywords:
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Statistics Education ; Undergraduate Research
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Abstract:
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As part of Mary Washington's Summer Science Institute, I had the opportunity to mentor two students on two research projects in 2006. Because Mary Washington does not offer a statistics degree, both students were mathematics majors and the only statistics courses they had taken before the summer were an introductory course and a one semester upper-level probability and statistics course. Neither student had any programming experience or exposure to LaTex for writing up their results. In this session I will describe the projects and computer simulations the students completed and the process I followed to prepare them for the ten week summer program.
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