An in-class demonstration to help students understand confidence intervals


Book: 
Journal of Statistics Education
Authors: 
Anderson-Cook, C. M.
Category: 
Volume: 
7(3)
Year: 
1999
URL: 
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v7n3/anderson-cook.cfm
Abstract: 

This article discusses an active learning technique that can be easily incorporated into a variety of introductory statistics classes to demonstrate purely subjective and statistical confidence intervals.

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