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Activity Number:
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169
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 3, 2009 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #305622 |
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Title:
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Bedtime for Student's t-Test?
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Author(s):
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Jim Bentley*+
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Companies:
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University of Redlands
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Address:
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Department of Mathematics, Redlands, CA, 92373,
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Keywords:
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statistical education reform ; t-test
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Abstract:
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Student's t-test has been an admirable workhorse in the 100 plus years that have followed its publication in 1908 by William Sealy Gosset. During this period, advances in the field of statistics, the advent of the computer, and subsequent growth in computational efficiency have led practicing statisticians to use more comprehensible and descriptive means for showing differences between subsets of a population. The availability and evident use of more generally applicable and powerful approaches for looking at group differences lead to the question of whether it is time for teachers of statistics to move forward as well. While the t-test remains an interesting topic for a mathematical statistics class, a few examples help demonstrate that it might be time to remove the topic from the introductory curriculum.
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