An On-Line Workshop Using a Simple Capture-Recapture Experiment to Illustrate the Concepts of a Sampling Distribution

Authors: 
Schwarz, C. J., & Sutherland, J.
Type: 
Journal Article
Category: 
Teaching
Volume: 
5(1)
Pages: 
Online
Year: 
1997
Publisher: 
Journal of Statistics Education
URL: 
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v5n1/schwarz.html
Abstract: 

We describe a World Wide Web-accessible workshop designed for students in an introductory statistics course that uses a capture-recapture experiment to illustrate the concept of a sampling distribution. In addition to the usual "sampling bowl" experiment, the workshop contains a computer simulation program written in XLISP-STAT that will allow students to further investigate the properties of the estimator.

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