Statistics -- Study and teaching

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"A collection of case studies and exercises applying statistical and probabilistic thinking to the game of baseball. Baseball is the most statistical of all sports, since players are identified and evaluated by their hitting and pitching statistics. There is an active effort by …

"Based on years of teaching experience, this work provides a wealth of demonstrations, examples, projects and course plans for teachers of statistics courses at all levels. It also includes hints on how to organize and motivate student groups."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Students in the sciences, economics, social sciences, and medicine take an introductory statistics course. And yet statistics can be notoriously difficult for instructors to teach and for students to learn. To help overcome these challenges, Gelman and Nolan have put together th…

Part I of the book presents a large selection of activities for introductory statistics courses and has chapters such as 'First week of class'-- with exercises to break the ice and get students talking; then descriptive statistics, graphics, linear regression, data collection (s…

"This text presents the breadth and diversity of empirical and practical work done on statistics education around the world. A wide range of methods are used to respond to the research questions that form its base. Case studies of single students or teachers aimed at understandi…

"This book presents the breadth and diversity of empirical and practical work done on statistics education around the world. A wide range of methods are used to respond to the research questions that form it's base. Case studies of single students or teachers aimed at understand…