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Reaburn, Robyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
Random sampling and random allocation are essential processes in the practice of inferential statistics. These processes ensure that all members of a population are equally likely to be selected, and that all possible allocations in an experiment are equally likely. It is these characteristics that allow the validity of the subsequent calculations…
Descriptors: Statistics, Comprehension, Introductory Courses, College Students
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Wagler, Amy E.; Lesser, Lawrence M.; González, Ariel I.; Leal, Luis – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2015
A corpus of current editions of statistics textbooks was assessed to compare aspects and levels of readability for the topics of "measures of center," "line of fit," "regression analysis," and "regression inference." Analysis with lexical software of these text selections revealed that the large corpus can…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Grammar, Higher Education, Statistics