On Sep 16, 10:32 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Another idea for a project is to finish the statistics module wrapping > > functionality in R. I'm teaching a modeling class right now and I wish I > > had a nice module of statistics functionality.
Introductory statistics (the pre-calculus version) has become a very popular course, even in the high schools. High school students taking the Advanced Placement Statistics exam has risen by roughly an order of magnitude in a decade, with over 100,000 students taking the exam last year. http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap08_Statistics_GradeDistributions.pdf At our university, roughly 2/3 of the students take our introductory course to meet their math requirement. Attention to the tools needed for this course might be a big win for getting the notebook and servers into more schools. We have faculty who know R but we still use Minitab in the intro course, I think due to a simpler interface. I'd imagine the AP course relies on handheld calculators for technology. So wrapping whatever R has for basic data analysis (histograms, box plots), discrete probability (e.g binomial distribution), sampling distributions (normal, t, F), confidence intervals and hypothesis tests would go a long way to making Sage and the notebook a free and easy tool for teaching introductory statistics at the college level. Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
