This book provides statistics instructors and students with complete classroom material for a one- or two-semester course on applied regression and causal inference. It is built around 52 stories, 52 class-participation activities, 52 hands-on computer demonstrations, and 52 discussion problems that allow instructors and students to explore in a fun way the real-world complexity of the subject. The book fosters an engaging 'flipped classroom' environment with a focus on visualization and understanding. The book provides instructors with frameworks for self-study or for structuring the course, along with tips for maintaining student engagement at all levels, and practice exam questions to help guide learning. Designed to accompany the authors' previous textbook Regression and Other Stories, its modular nature and wealth of material allow this book to be adapted to different courses and texts or be used by learners as a hands-on workbook.
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How to use this book; Part I. Organizing a Plan of Study: 1. Active learning; 2. Setting up a course of study; 3. In the classroom; Part II. Stories, Activities, Problems, and Demonstrations: 4. Week by week: the first semester; 5. Week by week: the second semester; Appendixes: A. Pre-test questions; B. Final exam questions; C. Outlines of classroom activities.
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'This book is an extraordinarily rich and generous resource for teaching statistics. Full of stories about challenging statistical problems, the examples reflect all the messiness of real life, and encourage class discussion of what went wrong and how to do things better. The extensive collection of lesson plans and exercises provides a fine inspiration to adopt a different, more active, style of teaching.' David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge
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52 real-world stories, with hands-on activities, problems, and computer demonstrations in R for learning or teaching regression.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781009436212
Publisert
2024-03-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
690 gr
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Biographical note

The authors are experienced researchers who have published articles in hundreds of different scientific journals in fields including statistics, computer science, policy, public health, political science, economics, sociology, and engineering. They have also published articles in the Washington Post, New York Times, Slate, and other public venues. Their previous books include Bayesian Data Analysis, Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks, and Regression and Other Stories. Andrew Gelman is Higgins Professor of Statistics and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Aki Vehtari is Professor in Computational Probabilistic Modeling at Aalto University, Finland.