4 out of 5 Students Surveyed Would Recommend this Activity (Comparing Chewing Gum Flavor Durations)

Mary Richardson

Grand Valley State University

Neal Rogness

Grand Valley State University

Byron Gajewski

The University of Kansas Medical Center
Journal of Statistics Education Volume 13, Number 3 (2005),

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Active learning; Assessing normality; Blinding; Confounding variable; Kaplan-Meier survival function; Paired difference experiment; Randomization; Randomized block design; Right-censored data; Two-way analysis of variance; Wilcoxon signed rank test.

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