Book:
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference On Teaching Statistics (ICOTS-7), Salvador, Brazil.
Editors:
Rossman, A., & Chance, B.
Type:
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Year:
2006
Publisher:
Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute.
URL:
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/17/C337.pdf
Abstract:
As an alternative to the Total Probability Theorem, the "depends" argument that students use to calculate marginal probabilities is studied. We discuss an experience with undergraduate engineering students who took a computed aided basic probability course based on the frequency approach. The result of this experience shows that an adequate interpretation of the outcomes of simulated random experiments allows conjecturing and arguing algebraic results of the theory of probability.
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