Undergraduates Can Conduct Original Research And Learn Data Analysis In The Process


Book: 
Proceedings of the sixth international conference on teaching statistics, Developing a statistically literate society
Authors: 
Baldy, R.
Editors: 
Phillips, B.
Category: 
Pages: 
Online
Year: 
2002
Publisher: 
International Statistical Institute
URL: 
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/1/10_02_ba.pdf
Abstract: 

Undergraduates at California State University, Chico's College of Agriculture do experimental research including data analysis. Desire to see if treatments differ, motivates students to learn inferential statistics. Students analyze data with ANOVA programs written for Microsoft Excel. These programs return an analysis with one or at most a few mouse clicks; they handle missing data - a problem in real world experiments. In statewide science competitions, our students routinely place first or second.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education