Hello folks,

Many of us interested in simulation-based inference credit George Cobb's banquet address at the inaugural U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) with sparking renewed interest in this approach to teaching introductory statistics.  George went on to write an article based on that address in 2007:

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz

I had the honor of interviewing George for the new issue of Journal of Statistics Education that came out today.  You can read more about the career and life of the teacher/scholar who has inspired so much interest in simulation-based inference at:

http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v23n1/rossmanint.pdf

Teaser: Don't stop reading before you see the response "I hope this isn't going to take very long. I have to catch a bus."

-- Allan

P.S. While I'm here, I'll point out that the "early bird" registration deadline for the 2015 USCOTS is coming up on April 1. Please register to learn about the conference theme of "making connections" and about George's (and many others') new ideas about teaching statistics:

https://www.causeweb.org/uscots/register/index.php

--
Allan J. Rossman
Professor and Chair
Statistics Department
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
arossman@calpoly.edu
http://statweb.calpoly.edu/arossman/

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