An investigation into adolescents perceptions of concepts of randomness, with a questionnaire trialled on 75 adolescent boys between Year 7 and Year 11 in Catholic schools in Melbourne, Australia.
This thesis is concerned with the problem of drawing inferences about populations when little or nothing is known about the form of the underlying distribution. Chapter 1 reviews the general problems, but the thesis as a whole is more concerned with problems of estimation than with tests of hypotheses.