Activity Webinar Series This series of webinars presents individual activities with complete do-it-yourself guidance. They are usually held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 2:30pm Eastern time. Hosted by Leigh Slauson, Capital University.

"A Guitar Hero Based Project in Mathematical Statistics"
with Ivan Ramler, St. Lawrence University

May 25^th, 2010

This webinar will discuss an undergraduate Mathematical Statistics course project based on the popular video game Guitar Hero. The project included:

1. Developing an estimator to address the research objective "Are notes missed at random?"
2. Learning bootstrapping techniques and R programming skills to conduct hypothesis tests and
3. Evaluating the quality of the estimator(s) under certain sets of scenarios.