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Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks.(Book Review)
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The American Statistician
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August 1, 2005
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2005 American Statistical Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks.
Andrew GELMAN and Deborah NOLAN. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002, xv + 299 pp., $85.00 (H), ISBN: 0-19-857225-5; $40.00 (P), ISBN: 0-19-857224-7.
The statistics education community, even broadly defined, is a small one. (By broadly defined, I include all academic statisticians, colleagues in other disciplines, and high school teachers who teach a first statistics course and think seriously about how to deliver it.) The core group of statistics educators who have influence on what and how we teach in the first course is smaller still. It includes textbook authors, workshop presenters, and Web site developers who put ...
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