I BET ALL OF THEM COULD HAVE BEEN given SOME STRANGE SAMPLING PLAN ... OR, EVEN IF YOU TOOK LUCK OF THE DRAW AT RANDOM AND DID THOUSANDS OF GRAPHS ... SOME RARITIES COULD APPEAR

At 05:43 PM 10/24/2002, Lise DeShea wrote:

List mates:

I developed an exercise for students to guess which samples came from a normally distributed population. If you go to the following webpage, you can test yourselves -- you'll have to scroll down to where it says "guess the population":

http://www.uky.edu/~ldesh2/edp660.htm

I generated the distributions with SAS functions and created the graphs in SPSS.

Lise


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