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Tang, Marc – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2020
University students in other disciplines without prior knowledge in statistics and/or programming language are introduced to the statistical method of decision trees in the programming language R during a 45-minute teaching and practice session. Statistics and programming skills are now frequently required within a wide variety of research fields…
Descriptors: Statistics, Teaching Methods, Programming, Programming Languages
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Jon-Paul Paolino – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2024
This article presents a novel approach to introducing principal component analysis (PCA), using summary tables and descriptive statistics. Given its applicability across a variety of academic disciplines, this topic offers abundant opportunity for class discussion and activities. However, teaching PCA in an introductory class can be challenging…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Factor Analysis, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
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Lasser, Jana; Manik, Debsankha; Silbersdorff, Alexander; Säfken, Benjamin; Kneib, Thomas – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2021
Data and its applications are increasingly ubiquitous in the rapidly digitizing world and consequently, students across different disciplines face increasing demand to develop skills to answer both academia's and businesses' increasing need to collect, manage, evaluate, apply and extract knowledge from data and critically reflect upon the derived…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Data, Interdisciplinary Approach, Programming Languages