dennis roberts wrote:
> week 2: since we were talking about linear regression, had them visit 3
> sites ... mainly those that were online courses/texts ... and find info
> from the sites about regression to the mean ... print it out ... and see if
> there were any cross site conflicts in how this topic was discussed
>
That's a great idea. One worth stealing! :-)
It would be interesting to have students do it for
more "mundane" things, like "confidence interval" and "P value".
I can imagine it sparking some valuable classroom discussion.
(Are they saying the same thing? Do they disagree?)
> week4: (to do for next week) ... to visit the
> http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/statistics/index.html ... world lecture
I didn't know of this site. Thanks.
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