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This paper is from Session 4D: Statistics for future statisticians

which comes under Topic 4: Statistics education/training and the workplace             Full topic list

(Tuesday 4th, 10:30-12:30)

Influence of consulting in the selection of topics when teaching Statistics

Presenter

• Edith Seier (United States)

Abstract

Statistical consulting not only provides real life examples to mention in class; it provides a reality check that influences the way we teach and the choice of topics to teach or emphasize. The focus of this paper is on topics that are frequently omitted or not emphasized but which we consider important as a direct result of consulting experiences. The first four belong to introductory courses and among them are data issues, the test of hypothesis about proportions for small samples using the binomial distribution and some topics on categorical data analysis. The last two topics, one on statistical models and the other in time series, belong to upper division courses.