Examples from an introductory course in developing probabilistic statistical thinking: Part 2

As described in Part 1, the concepts, structures and thinking of probability and distributions underpin all statistics, but the development of these in statistics education has received far less attention over the past decade than the topics of what has become known as the “statistics education reform movement”. This reform has been oriented to data and data investigations, with emphasis on statistical literacy, reasoning and thinking. Many statisticians think it is time to bring the principles of data-driven, holistic, authentic and active learning into the development of probabilistic and distributional understanding, reasoning and modelling…