AppletSampling Words
SourceRossman/Chance Applet collection
DescriptionGenerates and shows visually and calculates statistics of samples of words from the Gettysburg address and calculates mean length, number of long words and number of nouns. See AIMS website at http://www.tc.umn.edu/~aims/aimstopicsData.htm for activities (Data Lesson 3A, Activity 1 ans Samples & Sampling Lesson 2, Activity 2) that use this applet to illustrate bias, the importance of random sampling, and the effect of sample size.
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KeywordsSampling, Samples, Mean, Gettysburg Address, Words, Bias
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