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A Hands‐on Activity for Teaching the Poisson Distribution Using the Stock Market
Author(s) -
Dunlap Mickey,
Studstill Sharyn
Publication year - 2013
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/test.12028
Subject(s) - poisson distribution , econometrics , stock (firearms) , statistics , poisson process , stock market , computer science , mathematics , data collection , geography , context (archaeology) , archaeology
Summary The number of increases a particular stock makes over a fixed period follows a Poisson distribution. This article discusses using this easily‐found data as an opportunity to let students become involved in the data collection and analysis process.