Headline: Statistician to introduce new approach
To: All interested in statistical education
Re: One-day workshop: Making Hypothesis Tests and Con-
fidence Intervals Easier via Resampling/Simulation.
Are you currently teaching statistics at the high school level
or are you thinking
of starting such a course? Do you incorporate statistics and
probability into your
mathematics and science courses? This one-day workshop
will help you. Statistics,
especially statistical inference, and probability are difficult
concepts, often
regarded by students as onerous and confusing. Resampling
an extension of the
simulation approach the NCTM advocated in its Standards,
makes life easier for
students and teachers alike. Learn this poerful method for
teaching statistical
inference and probability and network with other teachers
seeking to infuse
statistics into their curricula.
Introductory example (a binomial problem). Participants will
derive the solution
just as their students might on the first day of class
Hypothesis test illustrations
Confidence limits
Comparing resampling and conventional formula
approaches
Empirical evidence on the success of resampling
in the classroom
The "self-discovery" approach inherent in teaching
resampling
Problems will be taken from the AP Course Description
Having earned degrees from Princeton, Harvard and the
University of Maryland,
Peter Bruce has taught resampling statistics at the University
of Maryland and in
a variety of short courses, including the National Technological
University
Instructional Television System. He is a co-developer
of Resampling Stats
software.
The workshop will be held on Friday, April 11, 1997
from 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at
The
George Washington University Alexandria Graduate Education Center
at 1775-B
Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia, conveniently
located directly across the street
from the King Street Metro station. Cost: $25,
includes notes and refreshment
breaks. Parking at adjacent Embassy Suites Hotel is $8 per day;
To register call Sue Kulesher at 703-684-1221x150,
E-mail her at sue@amstat.org,
or write to the above address by March 31.
(Checks...alas, no purchase orders...may
be made payable to the American Statistical Association.)
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Headline: Iman to offer nonparametrics short course
Applied Nonparametric Statistics will be the title of Ron Iman's one-day
short
course on May 29 in the Research Triangle of North Carolina.
Of the course content, the presenter says, "My goal is to have a real,
hands on
approach to the course. I will cover the robustness and power of
nonparametric
procedures, including median test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test,
Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney rank sum test, goodness-of-fit tests, Spearman's
rank
correlation, monotonic regression, Kruskal-Wallis test, Friedman test and
rank
transform procedures. These procedures will be demonstrated with real
data from
my consulting activities."
Iman, 1994 President of the American Statistical Association, retired
last year
after a 20-year career as a distinguished member of the technical staff
of Sandia
National Laboratories. He has started his own consulting business,
Southwest
Technology Consultants, which specializes in organizing and conducting
reliability
test programs for new and emerging technologies used in the manufacture
of
circuit cards.
Iman holds his doctorate and masters degrees in statistics from Kansas
State
University. His fields of major statistical interest include uncertainty
and
sensitivity analyses for computer modeling applications, nonparametric
statistics,
engineering applications and reliability testing.
Having published six college textbooks, he has written more than 110
professional
publications and made nearly 200 professional presentations. In addition
to
serving as president of ASA, he has held many other positions on the
Executive
Board and on Association committees. The awards he has received recently
include the Distinguished Service Award, Kansas State University, 1996;
Distinguished Alumni Award, Emporia State University, 1994; EPA's
Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award, 1995; Sandia President's Gold
Quality
Award, 1995; and Author of the Year, Sandia National Laboratories, 1995.
Tuition for the eight hour program will be $350.00 and will include a
continental
breakfast, lunch and refreshments. A copy of the author's 1994 textbook,
A
Data-Base Approach to Statistics, may be purchased for an additional
charge of
$59.50, plus $2.50 tax.
The course will be held at the SAS Institute Training Center in Cary,
North
Carolina. A total of .6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be awarded
to
those who request it. Hours for the course will be from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. on
Thursday, May 29.
To reserve a space and receive a reservation form and more information
for what
promises to be a very informative session, contact Sue Kulesher, at
American
Statistical Association, 1429 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-3402; by
phone at
(703) 684-1211 x150; or by E-mail at sue@amstat.org by May 19, 1997.
Sue Kulesher
Center for Statistical Education
American Statistical Association
1429 Duke Street
Alexandria VA 22314-3402
Tel. (703) 684-1221x150
sue@amstat.org
Visit our home page: http://www.amstat.org
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