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Activity Number: 418
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #304379
Title: An A-maze-ing Comparison
Author(s): Mary Richardson*+ and Diann Reischman
Companies: Grand Valley State University and Grand Valley State University
Address: Department of Statistics, Allendale, MI, 49401,
Keywords: active learning ; two-sample t-test ; Wilcoxon rank sum test
Abstract:

The speakers will discuss an interactive activity that revolves around students completing a maze and recording their maze completion times. We use data collected from this activity to illustrate performing a hypothesis test to compare two means or the Wilcoxon rank sum test.

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