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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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477
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 : 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 - #309143 |
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Title:
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Introducing Statistical Research to Undergraduate Mathematical Statistics Students using the Video Game Series Guitar Hero
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Author(s):
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Ivan Ramler*+
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Companies:
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St. Lawrence University
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Address:
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Dept of Math, CS & Stats, Canton, NY, 13617,
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Keywords:
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Active Learning ;
Bootstrap ;
Statistical Education ;
Undergraduate Research
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Abstract:
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Guitar Hero is a series of popular video games that most college students are familiar with. Because of its current popularity, it can be turned into a fun multi-staged project to introduce statistical research for students in upper-level undergraduate classes such as Mathematical Statistics. The project consists of different stages such as developing the research question ("Are missed notes grouped together in parts of a song?"), programming in R, collecting data, estimation, and hypothesis testing - including statistical power. An example method with supporting R code is provided.
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