A Core in Statistics for Engineering Students

This article is a follow-up to a report of a 1984 conference on statistical education for engineers. We agree with most of that report but recognize that the course outlined there contains too much material. Accordingly, we modify those recommendations by reducing the number of topics considered. Su...

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Published in:The American statistician 1994-11, Vol.48 (4), p.285-287
Main Author: Hogg, Robert V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Confidence interval
Curricula
Education
Educational statistics
Engineering
Engineering education
Engineering students
Experiment design
Improving presentations
Probabilities
Recommendations
Scatter plots
Statistical education
Statistical variance
Statistics
Teachers
Understanding variability
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Summary:This article is a follow-up to a report of a 1984 conference on statistical education for engineers. We agree with most of that report but recognize that the course outlined there contains too much material. Accordingly, we modify those recommendations by reducing the number of topics considered. Suggestions for improving course presentations are also made.
ISSN:0003-1305
1537-2731
DOI:10.1080/00031305.1994.10476081