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Tree Trunk Applet

Students randomly sample trees in a forest and record the tree trunk circumferences. Students then use Excel to fit a normal distribution to these data. Used for an activity on continuous probability distributions. This applet was developed as part of a first course on biostatistics. It is used as part of a series of online lab activties for that course....

Keywords:: biostatistics, statistics

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Mathematics and Statistics / Statistics and Probability / Statistics

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Material Type:: Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:: June 18, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 1, 2015
Author:: Robert Desharnais, CSU Los Angeles
Submitter:: Robert Desharnais
Primary Audience:: College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Website

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Technical Requirements:: Web browser
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States