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Teaching Business Statistics: Some Useful Relationships, Phil Rice, Chris Brune
Teaching Business Statistics: Some Useful Relationships, Phil Rice, Chris Brune
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The purpose of this paper is to suggest an instructional approach in the introductory business statistics course that utilizes relationships between separately introduced topics. The paper will explore three “useful relationships” that can assist classroom instruction: (1) the relationship between the simple arithmetic mean, the weighted arithmetic mean, and the expected value of a discrete probability distribution; (2) the relationship between the use of the multiplication rule to calculate the joint probability associated with two events, use of tree diagrams, and the use of the binomial and hypergeometric distributions; and (3) the relationship between the geometric mean and the compound …
Playfair's Introduction Of Bar And Pie Charts To Represent Data, Diana White, River Bond, Joshua Eastes, Negar Janani
Playfair's Introduction Of Bar And Pie Charts To Represent Data, Diana White, River Bond, Joshua Eastes, Negar Janani
Statistics and Probability
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Representing And Interpreting Data From Playfair, Diana White, River Bond, Joshua Eastes, Negar Janani
Representing And Interpreting Data From Playfair, Diana White, River Bond, Joshua Eastes, Negar Janani
Statistics and Probability
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Seeing And Understanding Data, Beverly Wood, Charlotte Bolch
Seeing And Understanding Data, Beverly Wood, Charlotte Bolch
Statistics and Probability
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Why I Believe People Need Painting By Numbers, Jason Makansi
Why I Believe People Need Painting By Numbers, Jason Makansi
Numeracy
Jason Makansi.2016. Painting By Numbers: How to Sharpen Your BS Detector and Smoke Out the Experts (Tucson AZ: Layla Dog Press). 196 pp. ISBN 978-0998425900.
This piece briefly introduces my Painting By Numbers, which aims to take the core messages of the QL/QR community from academic and professional circles to the rest of the citizenry. I describe the book in the context of the critical need for the most basic numeracy tools to help consumers of news, information, and analysis—delivered through traditional and contemporary social media outlets—determine where a reported numerical result lies on the scale from utter nonsense …
Quantifying Certainty: The P-Value, Dominic Klyve
Quantifying Certainty: The P-Value, Dominic Klyve
Statistics and Probability
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