A role for computer intensive methods in introducing statistical inference


Book: 
Proceedings of the First Scientific Meeting of the International Association for Statistical Education
Authors: 
Jones, P., Lipson, K., & Phillips, B.
Editors: 
Brunelli, L., & Cicchitelli, G.
Category: 
Pages: 
255-263
Year: 
1993
Publisher: 
University of Perugia, Italy
Place: 
Perugia, Italy
Abstract: 

It is not the purpose of this paper to delve into the reasons why the particular software being used may or may not be effective, although this is in itself an extremely important issue. Our purpose is to suggest a rationale as to why computer based simulations are not as helpful as we might suppose, and to propose an alternative path leading to statistical inference, which potentially avoids this problem.

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