Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks

Written to assist instructors of introductory statistics courses, this book provides demonstrations, examples, and projects designed to involve the students. Topics include: the first week of class, descriptive statistics, linear regression and correlation, data collection, the news media, probability, statistical inference, structuring the course, decision theory and Bayesian statistics, and survey sampling. Gelman teaches statistics at Columbia University; Nolan, statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR