Some class-participation demonstrations for introductory probability and statistics

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 84-100

  Gelman, Andrew ^a   Glickman, Mark E ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom activities; Conditional probability; Confidence intervals; Experimentation; Hypotheses testing; Instruction; Numeracy; Sampling distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034374463     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986025001084     Document Type: Article

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