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Abstract:
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TigerSTAT is a first person shooter game based on the real problem of determining the population of rare and endangered Amur tigers in Siberia. Students use tranquilizer guns to shoot tigers and collect information about each (in effect, "tag" each animal). The program allows instructors to change settings and configurations to achieve lesson objectives in from introductory to advanced statistics courses. The instructor can input both questions that students must correctly answer in order to improve health status, collect more ammunition or better weapons. Further, instructors can input information about the tiger population (parameters, distributions and more) geared toward a variety of statistical topics. Topics for which the game can be easily adapted include descriptive statistics, sampling, bias, probability distributions, the Central Limit Theorem and statistical inference.
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