Student learning in upper-level thermal physics: Comparisons and contrasts with students in introductory courses

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 790, Issue , 2005, Pages 31-34

  Meltzer, David E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33746888437     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2084694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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6. This is because the variance (about the population mean) for mean values of small subsamples drawn from a large population is relatively large, compared to the variance for larger subsamples.
7. Ref. 2, Sec. V B.
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