Book:
Proceedings of the sixth international conference on teaching statistics, Developing a statistically literate society
Editors:
Phillips, B.
Type:
Category:
Pages:
Online
Year:
2002
Publisher:
International Statistical Institute
URL:
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/1/5e4_diam.pdf
Abstract:
Using real life examples in Introductory Statistics courses is now accepted as very desirable and even necessary. There are many resources available on the Internet and elsewhere that makes this particularly easy. In this paper we discuss some advantages of using homegrown examples, obtained mainly from consulting work. However, to be able to use these examples in undergraduate courses they must be framed in such a way that the students can understand them. We also give a number of examples where we have done this.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education