StatVillage: An On-Line, WWW-Accessible, Hypothetical City Based on Real Data for Use in an Introductory Class in Survey Sampling

Authors: 
Schwarz, C. J.
Type: 
Journal Article
Category: 
Teaching
Volume: 
5(2)
Pages: 
Online
Year: 
1997
Publisher: 
Journal of Statistics Education
URL: 
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v5n2/schwarz.html
Abstract: 

StatVillage is a hypothetical city based on real data that is suitable as a teaching aid for an introductory class in survey sampling. It uses a World Wide Web-based interface to allow the students to actively select sampling units; it then returns the corresponding data for further analysis. The underlying data are actual census records extracted from public use microdata files.

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