Statistical Literacy and Chance
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Statistical literacy studies statistics used as evidence in everyday arguments. This paper studies those aspects of chance that seem most relevant to statistical literacy. Web prevalences of chance-related terms are used to select chance topics relevant to statistical literacy such as ‘better than chance’, ‘due to chance’, chance in evolution, the Law of Very Large Numbers, Trojan numbers, informal statistical significance and a Bayesian view of confidence intervals and statistical significance.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005