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Using some forensic anthropology history to illustrate regression
Author(s) -
Croucher John S.
Publication year - 2018
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.12185
Subject(s) - forensic science , computer science , mathematics education , sociology , data science , econometrics , statistics , psychology , history , mathematics , archaeology
Summary The use of real contexts and history in the teaching of statistical principles holds much attraction in the classroom. This is especially so when the examples used are in situations that are quite out of the ordinary but can lead to further investigation by the students. Previous instances of these have been used with great effect with sporting data and even courtroom decisions. In this article, a very practical problem in forensic science is tackled using elementary statistics with some spectacular and extremely useful results.