Research on the reasoning, teaching and learning of probability and uncertainty [PDF]
, 2012 In this editorial, we set out the aims in the call to publish papers on informal statistical inference, randomness, modelling and risk. We discuss how the papers published in this issue have responded to those aims.
Pratt, David
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The Show Must Go On II: Statistics In (Engineering) Higher Education
Open Education Studies, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic forced Portuguese higher education institutions to go home and teach online. Therefore, we had an online experience teaching the Statistics course to the Social Service degree. Viewing this school year experience, we decided to make
Nascimento Maria M., Morais Eva
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Context effects on probability estimation.
PLoS Biology, 2020 Many decisions rely on how we evaluate potential outcomes and estimate their corresponding probabilities of occurrence. Outcome evaluation is subjective because it requires consulting internal preferences and is sensitive to context.
Wei-Hsiang Lin +2 more
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Influence of culture on secondary school students' understanding of statistics: A Fijian perspective [PDF]
, 2014 Although we use statistical notions daily in making decisions, research in statistics education has focused mostly on formal statistics. Further, everyday culture may influence informal ideas of statistics.
Sharma, Sashi
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Uncertainty, Probability and Statistics in Research
, 2016 Having considered the major components of scientific method in the preceding chapter, it is now time to consider one of the important aspects of science that, in general, is more or less ignored or played down in most expositions on scientific method: uncertainty. It is also one of the topics that Ph.D.
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Teaching and learning probability in an age of technology [PDF]
, 2010 Modern classrooms have access to a range of potential technologies, ranging from calculators to computers to the Internet. This paper explores some of the potential for such technologies to affect the curriculum and teaching of probability in the ...
Kissane, B., Kemp, M.
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Statistical Uncertainties in Posterior Probabilities. [PDF]
The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1995 Upendra Dave, A. W. Ambergen
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Uncertainty About Uncertainty: What Constitutes “Knowledge of Probability and Statistics Appropriate to the Program Name and Objectives” in our Program Accreditation Criteria [PDF]
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, 2020 Uncertainty about Uncertainty: what constitutes “knowledge of probability and statistics appropriate to the program name and objectives” in our program accreditation criteriaAbstractEAC of ABET program accreditation criteria for Electrical, Computer, andsimilarly named engineering programs include the requirement that the programmust demonstrate that ...
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A New Belief Entropy to Measure Uncertainty of Basic Probability Assignments Based on Belief Function and Plausibility Function [PDF]
, 2018 How to measure the uncertainty of the basic probability assignment (BPA) function is an open issue in Dempster⁻Shafer (D⁻S) theory.
Lipeng Pan, Yong Deng
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