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Activity Number: 436
Type: Roundtables
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #308391
Title: User-Friendly Jargon for Statistics
Author(s): Larry Weldon*+
Companies: Simon Fraser University
Address: Statistics and Actuarial Science, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Keywords: parametric ; nonparametric ; data analysis ; undergraduate ; resampling ; graphics
Abstract:

Significant results that are not important, normal distributions that are not usual, standard deviations that are not acceptable, regression that is not a backward step, expected values that never occur - these common occurrences have the potential to confuse all but the most indoctrinated statistician. And then we verbalize our descriptions of these things in a foreign language using Greek letters. Is there a fix to this disastrous marketing of our discipline?

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