An Illustration of Bootstrapping Using Video Lottery Terminal Data.


Authors: 
Braun, W. J.
Category: 
Volume: 
3(2)
Pages: 
Online
Year: 
1995
Publisher: 
Journal of Statistics Education
URL: 
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v3n2/datasets.braun.html
Abstract: 

The video lottery terminal dataset contains observations on the three windows of an electronic slot machine for 345 plays together with the prize paid out for each play. The prize payout distribution is so badly skewed that confidence intervals for expected payout based on the central limit theorem are not accurate. This dataset can be used at the graduate or upper undergraduate level to illustrate parametric bootstrapping. The dataset can also be used in a graduate course to illustrate tests of independence for two and three-way contingency tables involving random zeroes, or these tables may be collapsed and used as examples in an introductory course.

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