Conveners
CONTRIBUTED Education, thinking
- Bart De Ketelaere (Catholic University of Leuven)
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Prof. Eddie Schrevens (K. Universiteit Leuven)28/06/2022, 17:35Education & Thinking
Engineers often have to make decisions based on noisy data, that have to be collected first (fi. fine-tuning of a pilot plant). In this case, there is a vast range of situations about which data could be collected, but only time and money to explore a few. Efficient data collection (i.e. optimal experimental design and sampling plan) is an important skill, but there is typically little...
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Mark Schaffer (Heriot-Watt University)28/06/2022, 17:55Education & Thinking
The use of "Null hypothesis significance testing" and $p$-values in empirical work has come in for widespread criticism from many directions in recent years. Nearly all this commentary has, understandably, focused on research practice, and less attention has been devoted to how we should teach econometrics (my home discipline) and applied statistics generally. I suggest that it is possible to...
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Hendry Raharjo (Chalmers University)28/06/2022, 18:15Education & Thinking
The approach is based on participant-centered learning of an hour workshop. The class starts with a real problem for the students to estimate the true proportion of red beads in a box containing approximately 4000 beads (red and white). Using a random sampling of 50 units, each student draws his/her own sample using a paddle two times of which the second sample size is doubled. An MS-Excel...
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