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The Royal Statistical Society Schools Lecture 2004: ‘Lies and
Statistics’, Part 1. P34. Frank Duckworth
This article is the first of a two-part printed version of the Royal Statistical
Society’s Schools Lecture for 2004, on ‘Lies and Statistics’.
Standard Deviation for Small Samples P40. Anwar H. Joarder
and Raja M. Latif
Neater representations for variance are given for small sample sizes, especially
for 3 and 4 and accessible proofs of lower and upper bounds are presented for
a broad spectrum of readers.
I Remember You: Independence and the Binomial Model P44. Douglas
W. Levine and Beverly Rockhill
The article focuses on the problem of ignoring statistical independence: a binomial
experiment is used to determine whether judges could match, based on looks alone,
dogs to their owners.
The Relationship between Poor Numerical Abilities and Subsequent Difficulty
in Accumulating Statistical Knowledge. P49. Michela Gnaldi
This article explores concern about students’ numeracy in a statistics
course for psychologists. (Similar to long-expressed concerns about students’
poor mathematical back-ground and the effect this has on performance in first
mathematics courses at university level).
CLASSROOM NOTE
A Note on Skewness Coefficients P53 D. S. Broca
This classroom note gives a warning about skewness coefficients.
A Coin-Tossing Experiment and Nineteen Distributions P54 M.
N. Deshpande and R. M. Welukar
This article develops nineteen distributions from a simple coin-tossing experiment.
Fans, Football and Federal Elections: A Real-World Example of Statistics
P56 Kenneth M. Cramer and Dennis L. Jackson
This article evaluates and explores the correlation (+0.892) between the United
States federal election winner and the most recent Washington Redskin home-game
winner, a relation perfectly linked for 17 or 18 elections since franchise inception
in 1936.
The F test for Comparing Two Normal Variances: Correct and Incorrect
Calculation of the Two-Sided p-value? P58. James Gallagher
This article illustrates that not all statistical software packages are correctly
calculating a p-value for the classical F test comparison of two independent
Normal variances.
THE C. OSWALD GEORGE PRIZE
There were two papers published in Volume 27 that won the prize for 2005. These
were ‘Public Opinion Polls, Chicken Soup and Sample Size’ by Phung
Nguyen in issue 27.3 and ‘Bluebells and Bias, Stitchwort and Statistics
by Chris du Feu in issue 27.2.
STATISTICAL DIVERSIONS P61 Peter Petocz and Eric Sowey
The regular column in Teaching Statistics to get you thinking.
NEWS AND NOTES P64
Notes for Contributors to TEACHING STATISTICS (back cover)
Please email: alison.davies2@ntu.ac.uk with any comments or corrections.
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ISSN 0141-982X (Print) ISSN 1467-9639 (Online)