Simulation Activity for a Population Proportion
As part of my effort to bring inferential statistics to the beginning of the semester I had students work through their first inferential project. This occurred on the sixth day of instruction. Simulation for a Population Proportion On the previous day we were going over different ways to display qualitative data (frequency tables, pie charts, bar charts). We created a pie chart for a sample of 60 students and it showed that two-thirds of those students were female. I asked…