Experimental statistics for undergraduates - revisited

Teaching statistics to medical undergraduates using interactive and participatory sessions

Introduction: In India, medical undergraduates think that statistics is difficultto understand. Often, it is taught just before final assessment examinationusing didactic lectures, with little use of medical examples and less focus onapplication. Hence, we prepared interactive, participatory sessions for teachingbiostatistics to medical undergraduate.Methods: The sessions were delivered by a fa...

Teaching Statistics and Econometrics to Undergraduates

L ittle has been written on the subject of teaching econometrics. An early exception is an article by Sowey (1983), in which econometrics is defined (p. 257) as “the discipline in which one studies theoretical and practical aspects of applying statistical methods to economic data for the purpose of testing economic theories (represented by carefully constructed models) and of forecasting and co...

Algorithmic statistics revisited

The mission of statistics is to provide adequate statistical hypotheses (models) for observed data. But what is an “adequate” model? To answer this question, one needs to use the notions of algorithmic information theory. It turns out that for every data string x one can naturally define “stochasticity profile”, a curve that represents a trade-off between complexity of a model and its adequacy....

Pharmacology – Prep Manual for Undergraduates

teaching statistics to medical undergraduates using interactive and participatory sessions

introduction: in india, medical undergraduates think that statistics is difficult to understand. often, it is taught just before final assessment examination using didactic lectures, with little use of medical examples and less focus on application. hence, we prepared interactive, participatory sessions for teaching biostatistics to medical undergraduate. methods: the sessions were delivered by...