The Introductory Statistics Course: A Ptolemaic Curriculum?
The Introductory Statistics Course: A Ptolemaic Curriculum?
As we begin the 21st century, the introductory statistics course appears healthy, with its emphasis on real examples, data production, and graphics for exploration and assumption-checking. Without doubt this emphasis marks a major improvement over introductory courses of the 1960s, an improvement made possible by the vaunted "computer revolution." Nevertheless, …