Sep 15
The new membership for two-year college educators includes print subscriptions to Amstat News and Significance, an online subscription to CHANCE, access to online teaching resources, and many other teaching tools.
Sep 15
Originally published in June 2014, this lesson uses a data set partially discussed in the article Female Hurricanes are Deadlier than Male Hurricanes written by Kiju Junga, Sharon Shavitta, Madhu Viswanathana, and Joseph M. Hilbed.
Sep 15
As the summer winds down and the school year begins, the ASA’s public education campaign finds new ways to connect students with statistics. Check out these ThisIsStatistics updates.
Sep 15
This lesson, published in August of 2017, uses a probability game and computer simulations to explore the law of large numbers, conditional events, sampling distributions, and the central limit theorem.
Sep 15
This is not the only VA scandal to appear in the news in recent years, but it gives us a rich example to use when teaching statistics. There are three main aspects of this example that can be used in class. First, there is a distorted graph. Second, there is the response to the graph by Rep. Huelskamp and the resulting media coverage. Third, there is Darrell Huff’s book, How to Lie with Statistics.
Sep 15
This activity, published in April of 2014, provides a foundation for distinguishing between qualitative (categorical) and quantitative data and how they can be summarized and analyzed (a topic encountered early in a statistics course).
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