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Activity Number:
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418
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 : 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 - #304382 |
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Title:
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The Magical Number 7
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Author(s):
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Diann Reischman*+ and Mary Richardson
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Companies:
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Grand Valley State University and Grand Valley State University
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Address:
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Department of Statistics, Allendale, MI, 49401,
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Keywords:
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active learning ; one-sample t-test ; sign test
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Abstract:
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The speakers will discuss an interactive activity that revolves around students participating in a memory recall test and recording the number of items correctly recalled. We use data collected from this activity to illustrate performing a hypothesis test on a mean or the sign test.
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