The Influence of Computers on the Teaching of Statistics

Evans, D. A.

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“…falls to specified percentages of the maximum value, from which we see that the likelihood surface is very flat. A computer program for plotting a function of two variables is described by Evans (1973), and has been extended by him to plot in a triangular co-ordinate system. Maximum likelihood estimates may be calculated by using a simplex procedure of function minimization (O'Neill, 1971).…”

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The Analysis of Permutations

1975

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“…Not everyone was convinced of the pedagogical merits of this development. At a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society in November 1972 my former Newcastle University colleague Dr Dennis Evans, an early advocate for the use of computers in the teaching of statistical methods, could not hide his frustration in responding to one of the discussants of his paper (Evans, 1973), remarking that 'I would like to take issue with : : : when he assures us that students understand more about multiple regression when they invert a 5 × 5 matrix using a desk calculator rather than a computer package'.…”

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Statistics: a Data Science for the 21st Century

Diggle

2015

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Summary The rise of data science could be seen as a potental threat to the long‐term status of the statistics discipline. I first argue that, although there is a threat, there is also a much greater opportunity to re‐emphasize the universal relevance of statistical method to the interpretation of data, and I give a short historical outline of the increasingly important links between statistics and information technology. The core of the paper is a summary of several recent research projects, through which I hope to demonstrate that statistics makes an essential, but incomplete, contribution to the emerging field of ‘electronic health’ research. Finally, I offer personal thoughts on how statistics might best be organized in a research‐led university, on what we should teach our students and on some issues broadly related to data science where the Royal Statistical Society can take a lead.

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“…At the very beginning of the computer era, many people had doubtes in the effectiveness of applying computer facilities in classroom teaching on campus. Previous study showed that more and more computer facilities and programs had been adapted in classroom teaching, especially for teaching statistics (Evans, 1973). A previous survey concluded that more than 86% of the schools have used computer facilities in teaching statistics in the M.B.A.…”

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Using multivariate rank sum tests to evaluate effectiveness of computer applications in teaching business statistics

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2000

Journal of Applied Statistics

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Arguments about using computer facilities in classroom teaching have received a lot of attention over time. Using the computer facilities will be helpful to demonstrate real-world applications, while poor data or inappropriate case studies might hinder the applications of the computer programs in classroom teaching. In this paper, we examine the impacts that using computer programs to teach business statistics have on students in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. The results show that students are attracted to the interactive computer programs designed for the business statistics course, and students are more motivated to attend classes when computer programs are applied in teaching. Furthermore, computer programs help students to understand confusing topics, and students feel that teaching them to use computer facilities really improves their own abilities to apply similar programs in analyzing real-world problems.

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The Influence of Computers on the Teaching of Statistics

Cited by 11 publications

References 82 publications

The Analysis of Permutations

The Analysis of Permutations

Statistics: a Data Science for the 21st Century

Using multivariate rank sum tests to evaluate effectiveness of computer applications in teaching business statistics

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