Teaching Statistics - A Bag of Tricks (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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 this fascinating and thought-provoking book. Based on years of teaching experience the book provides a wealth of demonstrations, activities, examples, and projects that involve active student participation. 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 (sampling and experimentation), probability, inference, and statistical communication. Part II gives tips on what works and what doesn't, how to set up effective demonstrations, how to encourage students to participate in class and to work effectively in group projects. Course plans for introductory statistics, statistics for social scientists, and communication and graphics are provided. Part III presents material for more advanced courses on topics such as decision theory, Bayesian statistics, sampling, and data science.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2017
Authors:	Andrew Gelman • Deborah Nolan
Dimensions:	233 x 172 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	404
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-878570-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics
LSN:	0-19-878570-4
Barcode:	9780198785705

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