Water Quality Statistics.


Authors: 
Hodgson, T., Andersen, L., Robison-Cox, J., & Jones, C.
Editors: 
Goodall, G.
Category: 
Volume: 
26(1)
Pages: 
8-Feb
Year: 
2004
Publisher: 
Teaching Statistics
Abstract: 

Water quality experiments, especially the use of macroinvertebrates as indicators of water quality, offer an ideal context for connecting statistics and science. In the STAR program for secondary students and teachers, water quality experiments were also used as a context for teaching statistics. In this article, we trace one activity that uses virtual streams and repeated sampling to develop the notion of a hypothesis test for one proportion.

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

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