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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Stephenson, Paul; Richardson, Mary; Gabrosek, John; Reischman, Diann – Journal of Statistics Education, 2009
This paper describes an interactive activity that revolves around the dice-based golf game GOLO. The GOLO game can be purchased at various retail locations or online at igolo.com. In addition, the game may be played online free of charge at igolo.com. The activity is completed in four parts. The four parts can be used in a sequence or they can be…
Descriptors: Probability, Inferences, Games, Computers
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Richardson, Mary; Rogness, Neal; Gajewski, Byron – Journal of Statistics Education, 2005
This paper describes an interactive activity developed for illustrating hypothesis tests on the mean for paired or matched samples. The activity is extended to illustrate assessing normality, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, Kaplan-Meier survival functions, two-way analysis of variance, and the randomized block design. (Contains 6 tables and 13…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistics, Hypothesis Testing, Surveys
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Richardson, Mary; Gabrosek, John; Reischman, Diann; Curtiss, Phyliss – Journal of Statistics Education, 2004
In this paper we describe an interactive activity that illustrates simple linear regression. Students collect data and analyze it using simple linear regression techniques taught in an introductory applied statistics course. The activity is extended to illustrate checks for regression assumptions and regression diagnostics taught in an…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistics, Class Activities, Data Collection