Minimize Your Losses

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This article presents an activity, which may be presented as a game in the classroom, to students on both secondary school and college levels by introducing the averages via the idea of the least combined error.

Alternate Title	Teaching Elementary Statistics through the Concept of "Loss-Function"
Resource Type	Reference Material (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
Format	Other
Audience	College --Undergrad Lower Division High School
Email Address	rsscse@ntu.ac.uk
Date Of Record Creation	2005-08-18 13:01:42
Date Of Record Release	2005-08-18 13:01:42
Date Last Modified	2013-01-25 18:05:32
Statistical Topic	Statistical Inference and Techniques -- One Numerical Variable Methods
Material Type	Laboratories
Author's Name	Ruma Falk
Author's Organization	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Source Code Available	No
Intended User Role	Learner Teacher
Copyrights	Yes
Cost involved with use	Contact
Math Level	Algebra level symbolic math

Date Record Checked: 2005-08-18 00:00:00

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