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Teaching Probability with Categorical Data

Author(s): 
Terri Torres*, Oregon Tech (Faculty)
Talk Abstract: 
Help students explore the rules of probability with one interesting data set. Is there a statistically significant dependence between variables? What is joint and marginal probability? Is there an easy way to comprehend conditional probability? All of these questions and more can be answered with a simple categorical data table.
Session: 
Talk Subject: 
Probability and Statistics
Timeslot: 
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 13:30