Summary This article demonstrates how Microsoft Excel 2000 can best be used to tabulate and chart continuous data.
Summary This article demonstrates how Microsoft Excel 2000 can best be used to tabulate and chart continuous data.
Summary This article illustrates many of the problems of defining and obtaining a 'representative' sample in the context of a real-life survey of train performance.
Summary This article discusses optimal strategies for contestants in a well-known television game show. [
Summary The Family Expenditure Survey provides details of household incomes. This article looks at income distribution afresh and what is meant by the mean.
This article draws analogies between the activities of statisticians and of chefs. It suggests how these analogies can be used in teaching, both to help understanding of what statistics is about and to increase motivation to learn the subject.
This article describes an interactive activity for illustrating general properties of confidence intervals and the construction of confidence intervals for proportions. In completing this activity, students generate, collect and analyse data.
Proposes methods of introducing an individual element into the formative assessment of the ability to use computer software in the study of statistics. Diagrammatic representations of data; Correlation and regression exercises.
This article shows how data from a television game show can be used as a basis for illustrating many statistical procedures.
Describes a set of Minitab macros that perform randomization and bootstrap versions of basic statistical techniques. Content of the macros; Use of the macros for teaching; Example.
A bag of 24 packets of a well-known brand of crisps provides a handy visual (and edible) aid to looking at the syllabus of a basic course in statistics.