Bivariate Data: Lessons from Students' Coursework

This article examines some of the difficulties frequently encountered by students when analysing bivariate data and suggests how they might be overcome.     

King Kong,Storks and Birth Rates

This article discusses the influence extreme observations can exert on linear correlation between variables. It shows that standard p‐values obtained according to ordinary least squares and median regression can be misleading. Bootstrapping can prevent underestimation of the standard error of the regression coefficient and therefore unmask the deceiving correlation.     

Teaching Statistics to Physiotherapy Students

Shortage of teaching time for the statistics element of the BSc Physiotherapy course at the Queen's College, Glasgow, and its unfavourable reception by students, led to the development of a newly-structured course based on the students' use of a self-study workbook and a test to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach for the teaching of correlation and regression.     

Pricing Models Using Real Data

A practical hands‐on classroom exercise is described and illustrated using the price of an item as dependent variable throughout. The exercise is well‐tested and affords the instructor a variety of approaches and levels.     

Useful Data for Teaching Statistics from Hockey World Cup Matches

This article presents some data from a major sports event that can be used in common statistical analyses.     

Fans,Football and Federal Elections: A Real‐World Example of Statistics

This article evaluates and explores the correlation (+0.892) between the United States federal election winner and the most recent Washington Redskin home‐game winner, a relation perfectly linked for 17 of 18 elections since franchise inception in 1936.     

A Sort of Statistics Lesson

A classroom practical activity for sorting lists of numbers is described, leading to some statistical analysis.     

Exploring Sampling

This article attempts to integrate the crucial ideas of sampling and estimation in the teaching of linear regression. It won first prize in the recent PSI competition.     

重视实验教学 上好数据结构实验课

结合计算机专业数据结构课程的特点,探讨了如何结合习题进行实验,并从实际应用方面进行综合训练。     

Data Handling: An Introduction to Higher Order Processes

An activity is described which allows students with a range of abilities to become involved in data analysis and informal inference while working in self-selected small group environments.     

对补充初中"世界地理"教学国家内容的意见

九年制义务教育初中地理教材中国家部分偏热处理 于介绍其自然概况,而忽视各国经济发展水平、经济特色和政治特点的阐述,建议增加“亮点”、“最新动态”、“热点”和纵横对比等四个方面内容,以弥补其不足。     

How a Dummy Replaces a Student's Test and Gets an F (Or,How Regression Substitutes for t tests and ANOVA)

Using dummy variables, this note offers a convenient illustration to demonstrate that regression can replace both the one‐factor analysis of variance and the two‐population t test with independent random samples. The exercise also helps to develop students’ intuition regarding regression coefficients.     

Illustrating Regression Concepts

Modern microcomputers offer attractive possibilities to illustrate various concepts related to regression. In this article we describe how this can be achieved.