Hello SBI listserv participants and SBI blog readers,
Hope you are enjoying your Saturday morning!
First, Thank you for your discussions on/contributions to the listserv - it is great to hear about all the things that statistics teachers are doing in their classes!
Second, we have several new articles on the Simulation-based Inference blog (https://www.causeweb.org/sbi/) that have been recently posted:
1) We have two new posts on "How to use real data" by Kevin Ross and Nathan Tintle.
2) Erin Blankenship, Karen McGaughey, and Kathryn Dobeck have written about their experiences and what they thought was "The hardest thing about getting started with simulation-based curricula."
3) For readers interested in "How to implement simulation-based methods in high school classrooms/AP Statistics classes" - we have articles from Bob Peterson, Catherine Case, and Josh Tabor, all AP Statistics teachers, writing about their experiences.
On behalf of the ISI team, I'd like to thank all our blog contributors for writing these pieces for us.
I hope you enjoy reading these articles, and others posted on the blog, as much as I do!
Have a nice weekend!
- Soma
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Soma Roy
Associate Professor
Statistics
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo CA 93407
Phone no.: (805)-756-5250
"… for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." - Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Good evening,
So this isn't about SBI per se, but is with regard to the blog posts about finding real data (which are great, by the way). I happened upon this article in Lancet that I like for a couple of reasons. It's from 1998, but I think it's still worth considering:
Wolkenstein et al. (1998). Randomised comparison of thalidomide versus placebo in toxic epidermal necrolysis. The Lancet 352, 1586-1589.
It's a small sample size (appropriate for Fisher's Exact Test), and the study had to be stopped because more people were dying from the active treatment than placebo (10/12 vs. 3/10). Thus, it's a nice opportunity to talk about ethics when studying human subjects and provides a real (and I think interesting as well) example of Fisher's Test.
Megan
Megan J. Olson Hunt, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, STATISTICS
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Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, LS 465
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, WI 54311
Office: LS 427 | blog.uwgb.edu/olsonhunt | olsonhum(a)uwgb.edu
Hello SBI folks,
This message is to make you aware of a 3-day workshop on "Teaching the
Process of Statistical Investigations with a Randomization-Based
Curriculum" that my colleagues and I will present at Hollins University
in Roanoke, Virginia on Tues July 14 - Fri July 17, 2015.
Many of you on this list have already participated in a similar
workshop, but we would appreciate your helping to spread the word to
colleagues who might be interested. The registration fee for the
workshop is $325 before June 2, which includes meals and lodging. More
information is available from a link at:
http://www.maa.org/programs/faculty-and-departments/prep-workshops/schedule
and a link to register is available at:
https://www.signup4.net/Public/ap.aspx?EID=MAAP10E
Additional questions can be directed to me (arossman(a)calpoly.edu).
Thanks very much,
Allan Rossman
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Allan J. Rossman
Professor and Chair
Statistics Department
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
arossman(a)calpoly.edu
http://statweb.calpoly.edu/arossman/
