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Statistics and Intuition for the Classroom
Author(s) -
Chatterjee Sangit,
Hawkes James
Publication year - 1996
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.1467-9639.1996.tb00278.x
Subject(s) - intuition , randomness , statistical thinking , statistical analysis , perception , computer science , statistical hypothesis testing , epistemology , statistics , psychology , mathematics education , mathematics , cognitive science , philosophy
Summary Examples and case studies are presented of statistical reasoning, thinking and intuition that may arise in perception of randomness and in particular for random walks. The relationship between art and science can be explored through various notions of the statistical concepts of randomness.