Tag: numeric

Stress Testing Dynamic R/exams Exercises

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Before actually using a dynamic exercise in a course it should be thoroughly tested. While certain aspects require critical reading by a human, other aspects can be automatically stress-tested in R. Read More ›

R/exams @ useR! 2019

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Pre-conference tutorial about R/exams at useR! 2019 (The R User Conference) in Toulouse: Slides, example code, and links to further information. Read More ›

confint3: 2-Sided Confidence Interval (Extended Moodle Version)

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Exercise template for computing the 2-sided confidence interval (with extended Moodle processing) for the mean based on a random sample. Read More ›

fruit: Image-Based Systems of Linear Equations (Numeric)

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Exercise template for solving a system of three linear equations (numeric answer) with a problem description based on shuffled images. Read More ›

tstat: 1-Sample t-Test Statistic

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Exercise template for computing the t-test statistic (numeric answer) from given hypothesized mean and empirical mean and variance. Read More ›

regression: Simple Linear Regression (by Hand)

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Exercise template for computing the prediction from a simple linear prediction by hand, based on randomly-generated marginal means/variances and correlation. Read More ›

lagrange: Method of Lagrange Multipliers

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Exercise template for minimizing a linear objective function with two arguments subject to a Cobb-Douglas-type constraint. Both the parameters of the functions and the exact question (argument 1 vs. argument 2 vs. function value in optimum) are drawn randomly. Read More ›

fourfold2: Fourfold Table (Flexible Formatting)

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Exercise template for computing a fourfold table of joint and marginal probabilities based on three randomly-drawn conditional or marginal probabilities. Read More ›

fourfold: Fourfold Table

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Exercise template for computing joint probabilities from a 2x2 table based on three randomly-drawn conditional or marginal probabilities. Read More ›

dist2: Three Distances in a Cartesian Coordinate System

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Exercise template for computing the Manhattan, Euclidean, and maximum distance (cloze with three numeric answers) between two randomly-drawn points in a Cartesian coordinate system. Read More ›