Pedagogical Simulation of Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem

被引：8

作者：

Hagtvedt, Reidar ^{[1
]}

Jones, Gregory ^{[2
]}

Jones, Kari ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Georgia Inst Technol, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[2] Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA

[3] Univ Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA

来源：

TEACHING STATISTICS | 2007年 / 29卷 / 03期

关键词：

Teaching; Sampling Distributions; Central Limit Theorem; Simulation; Visual Basic; Microsoft Excel;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00270.x

中图分类号：

G40 [教育学];

学科分类号：

040101 ; 120403 ;

摘要：

Students often find the fact that a sample statistic is a random variable very hard to grasp. Even more mysterious is why a sample mean should become ever more Normal as the sample size increases. This simulation tool is meant to illustrate the process, thereby giving students some intuitive grasp of the relationship between a parent population and the distribution of a sample mean.

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页码：94 / 97

页数：4