The Magical Number 7


Authors: 
Mary Richardson, Diann Reischman
Volume: 
33(1)
Pages: 
online
Year: 
2011
Publisher: 
Teaching Statistics
URL: 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00406.x/full
Abstract: 

This article describes an interactive activity that involves students participating in a memory recall test. Data collected from the activity may be used to illustrate the one-sample t test or one-sample sign test.

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