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Statistical surprises and stories Probability distributions – Louise Addison

Louise Addison (Howick College) presented at the 2015 statistics teachers’ day. The big surprise for Louise this year was discovering she was teaching Year 13 statistics for the first time in about 10 years! Louise has shared resources she designed to develop students’ statistical insights that were focused around the idea of ‘surprises’ in data. These resources help students examine model selection and model fit.

Exp vs theor prob distributions

Probability Distributions summary

What distribution and why

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