Titanic: A Statistical Exploration


Authors: 
Takis, S. L.
Category: 
Volume: 
92
Pages: 
660-664
Year: 
1999
Publisher: 
Mathematics Teacher
Abstract: 

The tremendously popular movie Titanic has rejuvenated interest in the Titanic and its passengers. Students are particularly captivated by the story and by the people involved. Consequently, when I was preparing to explore categorical data and the chi square distribution with my class, I decided to use the available data about the Titanic's passengers to interest students in these topics. This article describes the activities that I incorporated into my statistics class and gives additional resources for collecting information about the Titanic.

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

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