Questions tagged [statistics]
For questions about the practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities, for instance for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.
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Syllabus for the bs and ms in mathematical and theoritical statistics
I am a computer science undergrad who is very much interested in learning rigorous statistics both mathematically and the practical applications in real world.
I searched through online to find the ...
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Advice for assigning student projects in masters data science stats course
I'd like some advice on assigning final projects in an applied stats course that I'm developing as part of a master's in data science program.
I don't have a lot of experience assigning student ...
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Are these explanations of variance and covariance intuitive?
When tutoring, I try to simplify concepts. I came up with these examples to explain the intention behind variance and covariance. Could you please help me find conceptual, pedagogical or mathematical ...
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What are "must read"/classical refences on data aggregation/disaggregation in statistics?
I am looking for "must read"/classical references on data aggregation/disaggregation in statistics, particularly, what they are exactly, why they are done and how statistical measures (media,...
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simpson paradox in classroom: reports?
he Simpson's Paradox is a statistical phenomenon in which a trend or relationship observed within a dataset disappears or reverses when the dataset is divided into smaller groups. It occurs when a ...
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Best natural language(s) for conveying, conceptualizing, teaching, understanding, and learning Probabilistic & Statistical concepts & theory?
English can be precise but it is rather 'flowery' and easily gets in its' own way. East-Asian natural languages like Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Japanese are notorious for permitting the ...
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Where can I find a collection of bad/misleading data visualizations?
Are there any collections or blogs of bad data visualizations? I know I've seen such misleading graphics in the news or in print, made misleading either maliciously or thoughtlessly, but I usually see ...
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After building the probability space, how to motivate for random variables? [closed]
Having put my audience through developing a probability space $(\Omega, \mathcal{F}, P)$, where $\Omega$ is the sample space of a random trial, $\mathcal{F}$ is a $\sigma$-field on it, and P is a ...
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Where can I find examples of statistics projects? [duplicate]
I am going to teach an undergraduate statistics course for the first time next semester. I would like students to do a project by applying some of the things they learned to real-world data. Is there ...
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Is it weird for an undergrad or grad quant/applied maths(/even pure maths) programme to not teach that probabilities of 0 or 1 will never change? [closed]
Edit: i didn't mean it like this programme should do this or that. i mean other people are accusing me like 'your programme should've had this or that' (actually they're saying that i should know this ...
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How do I sketch a good gaussian curve freehanded, or by using only common sketching tools?
I'm a lousy artist. If I want my Gaussian curves to be accurately drawn when I use a whiteboard, or work with pen & paper, what are my options?
Is there a way to use a straight edge, or compass, ...
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Why is my 8th grade Algebra 1 tutoring student learning mean absolute deviation and standard deviation?
I’m tutoring an 8th grade student in Algebra 1, and he showed me that their class learned how to find standard deviation and mean absolute deviation using the following formulas:
$SD=\sqrt{\...
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Best books for mathematical statistics self-study?
I'm hoping to start a masters in mathematics in the fall, and am hoping to find a good book on mathematical statistics to study so that I'll be able to take graduate level mathematical statistics once ...
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Where can I find the solutions manual to Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis by Mosteller, Fienberg and Rourke?
I am planning to teach a course on Statistics using Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis by Mosteller, Fienberg and Rourke. On page xii of the book, the authors said "A solutions manual is ...
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To what degree can the legally blind, with computer induced medical problems, study statistics?
My son graduates from secondary school in 2022. But he shall attend university in Australia or UK — where you must apply for ONE major — not liberal arts in the USA. He wants to pick BSc Math with ...
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The Basic Practice of Statistics vs. Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
How does David S. Moore; William I. Notz; Michael Fligner's 2021 9 edn. The Basic Practice of Statistics differ from David S. Moore; George P. McCabe; Bruce Craig's 2021 10 edn Introduction to the ...
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Looking for good examples/explanations of maximum likelihood estimators for discrete random variables
The title basically says it all. I need to prepare material for a whole classroom of elementary statistics students, so if anyone wants to help me out in the name of math education, that'd be great!
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How can I effectively learn and master Math and Statistics for Data Science?
I completed a BSc in Computer Science recently and am going on to do an MSc in Data Science. However, the only focussed math module I had during CS was in the first year and I didn't do too well. I ...
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How to make an introductory course on Statistics interesting
I am going to teach this probability and statistics course in a couple of weeks. The probability part can be made very interesting, in my opinion, easily. But I am a little worried that I might make ...
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simple statistics (binomial) terminology
Say I have the problem: I roll a die three times and I am interested in the probability of ending up with two 1's.
My impression is that a single roll is called a trial.
What is the full 3-roll action ...
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Statistics, for the mathematically rigorous
I don't know where I can find a rigorous statistics course or textbook. The closest thing I can think of is measure-theoretic probability theory, but I wouldn't really call that "statistics"....
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Is there any university program that offers an introductory statistical methods class that is bayesian -instead- of a frequentist one?
Is there any university program that offers an introductory statistical methods class that is bayesian -instead- of a frequentist one?
Surely every intro to stats class in every program in the world, ...
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Is SQL relevant to statisticians' work?
I hope this is the right place for posting this, but if not, please let me know!
I recently took a second class in Python programming which, toward the end, also taught a little bit of SQL. As it ...
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Is there a 'statistics theory' course plan for practitioners?
My job is starting to have me delve into categories that require things like regression analyses on data sets, essentially I'm being introduced to "Data Science" type material. Coming from a ...
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Are these assumptions in statistics correct or beneficial?
(I hope the question in in scope, please see my question on Meta about that)
My 15 yo son (2nde in France, this is the first year of the equivalent of a High School) is going through basic statistics....
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Best resources for probability/statistics textbooks
I'm looking for a good textbook introduction to probability/statistics that a first/second year undergrad math student could use! I'd like a book that emphasizes theory over procedure. I'd prefer an ...
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Fun, impressive, or compelling examples of scaling of the standard deviation like $1/\sqrt{n}$?
I'm teaching a class where statistics is not the main topic, but I would like to introduce the idea that if you take $n$ measurements of a variable that are independent, identically distributed, and ...
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Good Source for German Tank Problem
I would like to teach the German Tank Problem to bright students with little prerequisites. They are 16 year old high school students with a lot of maths competition experience, but no prior knowledge ...
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How to explain even higher moments
In prob/stats, students mostly get the idea of mean/expected value, and variance/s.d. slowly sinks in. Even the third and fourth moments (about the mean) have "standard" interpretations - skewness ...
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How to explain that the sums of numerators over sums of denominators isn't the same as the mean of ratios?
I am a teaching assistant for an intro programming course. One assignment asked for the averages of a certain ratio, but most students, rather than returning
$$\frac{\text{sum of all ratios}}{\text{...
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Entry Test for Statistical/Data Science class
If there is a Data Science class (for final year high school students, not necessarily from the same school) with the following syllabus:
Python programming (first 3 meetings)
Data cleaning and ...
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Published papers for Intro Stat students to read
I am looking for studies and experiments in the literature that I can share with undergraduate students in an intro statistics course. I do not expect students to understand everything, and I plan to ...
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Favorite datasets to use when teaching statistics
There are so many datasets available that it seems difficult to sort through them all and identify the best ones to use when teaching an introduction to statistics class. What are your favorite ...
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Practical Implication for Correlation (Lay individual vs Scholarly Group)
Can you please explain or provide resources that explain this issue (esp. to a lay audience):
How to understand the significance of a co-relation number that studies (esp. meta-analyses) produce. The ...
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What is a realistic situation that illustrates precisely what a p-value is?
Students in the basic statistics courses I teach often learn a little bit of probability and then learn hypothesis testing. The core concept that ties the course together is the p-value, but most ...
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What are some suggestions fo teaching statistics concepts to struggling college students?
I'm a private math tutor. I'm fairly new at this, and this semester is the first time I've been tutoring for a statistics class at a community college. I enjoy experimenting and learning about ways to ...
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What to include in an "elevator pitch" for an undergraduate statistics class
I'm going to be giving a five minute "elevator pitch" presentation to undergraduate math majors in order to advertise an introduction to statistics class that I'll be teaching in the spring. It's an ...
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Trends in math education: Majors? Applied math? Statistics?
I would be quite interested in learning of trends (in the U.S. or internationally) of student interest at the undergraduate level in pure math vs. applied math,
say, measured by majors at graduation. ...
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Why teach absolute mean deviation?
I was helping my niece (7th grade) with homework and one of the topics was the absolute mean deviation. It's basically the same thing as standard deviation except instead of squaring the difference ...
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What is the point of teaching variance?
I am a teaching assistant for a sophomore engineering laboratory. We use standard deviation a lot during the semester. It is an incredibly useful concept that can be used in a lot of engineering ...
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What are some very concrete examples of statistical models to present to students?
In order to teach students what "statistical modeling" is, it would be helpful to show them some very concrete, specific (and maybe classic) examples of statistical models. Something you can point to ...
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Why aren't Bayesian Networks and Variable Elimination introduced earlier?
Throughout my undergrad, I dreaded probability. I hated it, I was horrible in it, I just never got it, and felt stupid when the professors used "summation/marginalization" equations out of the blue to ...
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Why do we teach estimation in Statistics and Mathematics?
Please forgive me if this is naive. I am only an aspiring educator after all. Why do we still teach estimation when there are easily accessible/teachable exact techniques? Why do statisticians teach $...
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Text book on real analysis for undergrad in statistics
May I get some recommendation on text book on real analysis for undergrad in statistics?
Thank you.
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Standardized Exam for Statistics?
I have been trying to find a standardized exam for statistics, but have not had any luck. For example, there is an AP statistics exam for high schoolers to take, but I am looking for something that ...
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Moving from discrete probability distributions to continuous ones
I'm teaching an introductory statistics class at a community college, and we've just finished a unit on discrete probability. At the moment, the students' conception of the probability of an event A ...
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Teaching new stats students confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and other general techniques for inference
I have instructed for community colleges and adjuncted for major universities for just over fifteen years now.
In all my time doing this job, I've found that the worst manifestation of so-called "...
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Looking for examples from the MCMC family of ideas
I am teaching a "computation" course, where we get students to explore mathematics and statistics via a high-level programming language. So the course is less about mathematics proper, and more ...
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Small data sets with integral sample standard deviations
I'm looking for small data sets ($N\approx10$) that have integral (or even rational) sample standard deviations. Given a list of observations $\{x_1,\ldots,x_N\}$ with mean $\bar{x}$, the sample ...
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Which math class should I take as an exchange student in the USA (OH)? [closed]
I will go to an American High School (Ohio) this summer for a year and I will probably be a junior. I got a list of all classes, but there are really many classes to choose especially math classes. I ...
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