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Introductory statistics in the garden
Author(s) -
Wagaman John C.
Publication year - 2017
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.12125
Subject(s) - statistics , mathematics education , curriculum , negative binomial distribution , mathematics , econometrics , computer science , psychology , pedagogy , poisson distribution
Summary This article describes four semesters of introductory statistics courses that incorporate service learning and gardening into the curriculum with applications of the binomial distribution, least squares regression and hypothesis testing. The activities span multiple semesters and are iterative in nature.