Book:
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Teaching Statistics
Editors:
Vere-Jones, D., Carlyle, S., & Dawkins, B. P.
Type:
Category:
Volume:
2
Pages:
141-143
Year:
1991
Publisher:
International Statistical Institute
Place:
Voorburg, Netherlands
Abstract:
The items covered in the paper are as follows: 1)teaching as an action leading the student towards a better understanding and interpretation of reality; 2)statistics as an area of knowledge that supplies scientific models closer to reality than classical deterministic ones; 3)the appeal of simplified models versus the risk of lack of rigour and of credibility; 4)the role of algorithmic computations versus laboratory simulation results.
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