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Activity Number: 398
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #306425
Title: Bus Arrivals and Bunching: A Data-Collection and Analysis Project
Author(s): Robert Adam Molnar*+
Companies: Bellarmine University
Address: 1859 Rutherford Ave Apt 2, Louisville, KY, 40205,
Keywords: class project ; data collection ; regression ; hypothesis testing ; education
Abstract:

Finding suitable projects for introductory courses that blend real-world data with relevant questions and feasible instructor effort is often difficult. This paper describes one such project - tabulating the intervals between bus arrivals. By including data gathering, descriptive statistics, hypothesis tests, and regression, it covers most of the topics in a first course. This paper describes the genesis of the project, classroom implementation, analysis results for the student-generated dataset, and adaptations available for other classes and course sizes.


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