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/1/10_86_ya.pdf
Abstract:
This paper reports some difficulties and strategies the students have in solving conditional probability problems with computer simulation. The difficulties are related to programming in the software used and with the trend of the relative frequencies graphic representation when the number of cases increases. The main strategy for estimation was taking the last value of the relative frequencies as the requested probability.
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