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Teaching Statistics in US — An Alien's s‐eye View
Author(s) -
Anderson Oliver D.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1989.tb00030.x
Subject(s) - sort , mathematics education , subject (documents) , normality , alien , statistics , statistical hypothesis testing , computer science , psychology , sociology , mathematics , library science , demography , census , information retrieval , population
Summary This article discusses the author's initial experience of teaching statistics in an American university, and the sort of way he thinks the subject should be taught. (Specifically, he looks at the assumption of normality, and indicates how conventional treatment in the area of hypothesis testing might be modified.) His comments primarily apply to elementary service courses, and particularly to those provided for business students.