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Rosenthal, Jeffrey S. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2018
This article advocates that introductory statistics be taught by basing all calculations on a single simple margin-of-error formula and deriving all of the standard introductory statistical concepts (confidence intervals, significance tests, comparisons of means and proportions, etc) from that one formula. It is argued that this approach will…
Descriptors: Statistics, Introductory Courses, Computation, Statistical Analysis
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Belcher, P. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2008
In this note the Nearest Neighbour Index is investigated in three cases, linear, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional. In each case the formula is investigated and the numerical values for the data points to be viewed as attracting each other, repelling each other or being randomly distributed are justified. Also, in each of the three cases mentioned…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistical Significance, Regression (Statistics), Geographic Distribution
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Ryden, Jesper – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2008
Extreme-value statistics is often used to estimate so-called return values (actually related to quantiles) for environmental quantities like wind speed or wave height. A basic method for estimation is the method of block maxima which consists in partitioning observations in blocks, where maxima from each block could be considered independent.…
Descriptors: Simulation, Probability, Computation, Nonparametric Statistics