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"Its like... you know": The use of analogies and heuristics in teaching introductory statistical methods

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2003

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Martin, Michael

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American Statistical Association

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Students often come to their first statistics class with the preconception that statistics is confusing and dull. This problem is compounded when even introductory techniques are steeped in jargon. One approach that can overcome some of these problems is

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Teaching-With-Analogies, Expectation, Graphical displays, Hypothesis testing, Influence diagnostics, Regression models, Structure mapping

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/87917

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ANU Research Publications

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Journal of Statistics Education

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