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Are You Sitting Comfortably? P65 Susan Meacock
This articles shows how consideration of seating arrangements in theatres can
be used as a basis for constructing an interesting probability model.
The Price is Right p69 Mike Fletcher
This article considers some probability calculations for a television game show.
Going MAD in Degrees of Unfairness! P72 Mike Perry
This article discusses concepts of unfairness in allocations of objects (coins)
to positions (students) and introduces possible measures for unfairness based
on intuition.
A Closer Look at a Relatively Neglected Mean p76 Avital Lann and Ruma
Falk
The self-weighted mean (WS) - in which each value is weighted by itself - is
presented in several contexts and illustrated. It is incorporated in a set of
more familiar means. Intuitions concerning WS are explored.
COMPUTING CORNER
FISH: A New Computer Program for Friendly Introductory Statistics Help
p81 Gordon P Brooks and Holly Raffle
All introductory statistics students must master certain basic descriptive statistics,
including means, standard deviations and correlations. Students must also gain
insight into such complex concepts as the central limit theorem and standard
error. This article introduces and describes the Friendly Introductory Statistics
Help (FISH) computer program, which is free and easy-to-use software designed
to help students learn such introductory statistical concepts.
Public Opinion Polls, Chicken Soup and Sample Size p89 Phung Nguyen
Cooking and tasting chicken soup in three different pots of very different size
serves to demonstrate that it is the absolute sample size that matters the most
in determining the accuracy of the findings of the poll, not the relative sample
size i.e. the size of the sample in relation to its population.
STATISTICAL DIVERSIONS p93 Peter Petocz and Eric Sowey
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ISSN 0141-982X (Print) ISSN 1467-9639 (Online)