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What's the point of a point estimate?: Why statistics lectures confuse students
Author(s) -
Morris Danielle
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00572.x
Subject(s) - point (geometry) , competition (biology) , publishing , set (abstract data type) , section (typography) , art history , computer science , classics , history , art , mathematics , literature , ecology , biology , programming language , operating system , geometry
In our December 2011 issue the Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society set a competition open to all young statisticians. It was to write an article for Significance , explaining some aspect of statistics in terms that anyone, statistically knowledgeable or not, could understand and relate to. The standard was extremely high. Over the coming months we shall be publishing several of them, here and on our website, where a fuller report of the competition is also published. We chose five runners‐up: Ethan Brown, Kevin Wilson, Linda Wijlaars, Patrick Rhodes and Douglas VanDerwerken. Douglas's piece appears on page 40. This piece, by Danielle Morris , was judged the winner.