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Statistics_10PercentRule

10% Rule

This lesson involves investigating the differences between the standard deviations of sampling distributions of means for samples taken from finite populations with and without replacement.
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Central Limit Theorem

This lesson involves examining distributions of sample means of random samples of size n from four different populations.
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Statistics_FamilyOfTCurves

Family of t Curves

This lesson involves investigating how a t-distribution compares to a normal distribution.
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German Tanks: Exploring Sampling Distributions

In this lesson, students will estimate the largest number of a population based on random samples from the population, as statisticians did in WWII.
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Statistics_SamplingDistributions

Sampling Distributions

This lesson involves examining samples from a normal population and observing the distribution of the means of those samples.
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Standard Error and Sampling Means

This lesson involves investigating the relationship between the standard deviation of a population, the area of a set of rectangles, and the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of sample mean areas of the rectangles.
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Why Divide by n-1?

Students will investigate calculating a sample variance using both n and n-1 as the divisor for samples drawn with and without replacement.
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Why t?

This lesson involves examining the variability of individual elements and their related standardized test statistics when those elements are drawn randomly from a given normally-distributed population.
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