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A Web Simulator to Assist in the Teaching of Bayes' Theorem
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Bárcena, M. J.; Garín, M. A.; Martín, A.; Tusell, F.; Unzueta, A. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2019
Teaching some concepts in statistics greatly benefits from individual practice with immediate feedback. In order to provide such practice to a large number of students we have written a simulator based on an historical event: the loss in May 22, 1968, and subsequent search for the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion. Students work on a simplified…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Bayesian Statistics