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JSM 2002 Abstract #301938
Activity Number: 210
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education*
Abstract - #301938
Title: The Challenges of Teaching Statistics to Business Students at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels
Author(s): Bodapati Gandhi*+
Affiliation(s): University of Puerto Rico
Address: PO Box 9009, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, 00681-9119, USA
Keywords: Statistical Education ; Undergraduate Teaching ; Business Students ; Statistical Laboratory
Abstract:

The paper deals with various challenges faced in teaching Statistics to nonquantitative majors, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The paper discusses some methods that can be tried to impart statistical education to students in business schools. In particular, the detailed design and results, of an experiment conducted by the author at the Mayaguez campus of the University of Puerto Rico, to teach inferential statistics at the undergraduate level by two different methods, with or without a statistical laboratory, are presented.

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