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Employing Introductory Statistics Students at ‘Stats Dairy’
Author(s) -
Keeling Kellie
Publication year - 2011
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.1467-9639.2010.00429.x
Subject(s) - mathematics education , class (philosophy) , statistics , psychology , computer science , mathematics , artificial intelligence
Summary To combat students' fear of statistics I employ my students at a fictional company, Stats Dairy, run by cows. Almost all examples used in the class notes, exercises, humour and exams use data ‘collected’ from this company.