Today' New York Times education column is the following appreciation of
the importance of statistics in primary and secondary math education.
Teachers, post it in your math department offices!
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Statistics, a Tool for Life, Is Getting Short Shrift
November 2
followed by the first 3 paragraphs of text. (The article in print included
examples of actual questions from the test, apparently not posted on the
site.)
Alan Zaslavsky
Harvard Med School, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/236/metro
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:02:57 -0500
> From: Jon Cryer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Could you please give us an example of such a situation?
>
> ">Consider first a set of measurements taken with
> >a measuring instrument whose sampling errors have a known standard
> >deviation (and approximately n
ong these lines for the Z test/interval, and then when I got to the t I
waved my hands and said "when we estimate the variance instead of knowing
it in advance, the intervals have to be spread out a bit more as shown in
this table".
Alan Zaslavsky
sible arguments.) Presumably some arguments could also be advanced
to the opposite effect, as well.
Best regards
Alan Zaslavsky
P.S. I see now that Robert Dawson had already made some similar comments,
which I hadn't gotten to yet when I
To: students and faculty with interests in Health Policy Statistics
The Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical
Association welcomes submissions for a student paper competition from
undergraduate or graduate students. Up to four students will receive
awards for travel expens
Health Policy Statistics Section Sponsors Student Paper Competition
The Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical
Association announces a competition for student and postgraduate papers
to be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in 2001. Winners of t
m the adviser certifying student
status (or completion of degree within the past year) and describing
plans for the completion of the research. Send applications to Alan
Zaslavsky (Program Chair, Social Statistics), Department of Health
Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Bosto
The following might be interest for those following press coverage of the
possible role of statistics in this dispute. (The printed version in the
edition I receive contained additional comments by David Freedman, also
downplaying the potential of statistics in this highly charged situation.
I wo
The following article may be of interest to some of you who are trying to
get across the notion of reliability, particularly those who are teaching
H.S. or young college students who have recently gone through high-stakes
achievement/competency testing programs. You can also download directly
fro
Since Elsevier was mentioned, does anyone happen to know whether the
Elsevier we know now as a scientific (including statistics) publisher is
lineally connected with the printer Elzevir (also in Netherlands) who
originally printed Galileo's work on the motion of the planets when it
was banned thro
in the use of these surveys will depend
on developing some standardized methods for conducting them (which some
marketers are beginning to do, I believe) and then comparing results over
time. This does not leave a great role for the one-shot amateur survey
because even the best efforts are not going to m
Agresti, Categorical Data Analysis, sec 3.3.5-3.3.7, has a brief discussion of
partioning chi-square with a bunch of references including several by Goodman.
This describes some ways of breaking down the total chi-square into components
that are asymptotically chi^2(1) as sample size increases in
variety of disciplines.
Alan Zaslavsky
Chairman, CIS Management Committee
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l data, the Poisson model for count data, and
many others. It most nearly corresponds to PROC GENMOD in SAS.
See McCullagh & Nelder, Generalized Linear Models, or other texts for
a general(ized) discussion of this class of models.
Alan Zaslavsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The following series of articles in Science magazine may be of interest
to Statistics educators. Sorry, their web site only gives text for a price:
$10 for 24-hour access at
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/current/
STATISTICS:
Bayes Offers a 'New' Way to Make Sense of Numbers
Dav
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