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From page 86... ... Topics that have been covered include: � Scoring streaks and records in sports; � Health risks of electric and magnetic fields � The effectiveness of aspirin in preventing heart disease; � Statistics, expert witnesses, and the courts; � The undercount problem in the 1990 U.S. Census; � Extraterrestrial communication; � The use of DNA fingerprinting in the courts; � The stow of Deming and quality control; 86 Read the entire page →
From page 87... ... Our original idea was to choose three or four of these topics and to try to understand the problems studied, the statistical or probabilistic issues involved, and the techniques that have been used to solve these problems. We soon found that many of these topics, as well as other equally interesting Chance course topics, were regularly reported in daily newspapers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times and in weekly journals such as Science, Nature, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Read the entire page →
From page 88... ... New York Times, 16 July, 1993, A, I Natalie Angler An article in the 16 July issue of Science reports on a study led by Dean Hamer that suggests that sexual preference has a genetic component. Read the entire page →
From page 89... ... If we wanted an article that would lead to a more extensive discussion, we might choose from the Chance News the article on the recent supreme court decision on determining criteria for admission of scientific evidence in the courts. We could discuss this in terms of the current controversy over the use of DNA fingerprinting. Read the entire page →
From page 90... ... You can also get data sets and information about statistical software from the STATLIB archives, and you can even read in those archives the current IMS Bulletin significantly before it appears by mail. All this and more can be found by pointing your gopher to the electronic mail address jse.stat.ncsu.edu, where you will also find the new electronic Journal of Statistics Education. Read the entire page →

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... Topics that have been covered include: � Scoring streaks and records in sports; � Health risks of electric and magnetic fields � The effectiveness of aspirin in preventing heart disease; � Statistics, expert witnesses, and the courts; � The undercount problem in the 1990 U.S. Census; � Extraterrestrial communication; � The use of DNA fingerprinting in the courts; � The stow of Deming and quality control; 86

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... Our original idea was to choose three or four of these topics and to try to understand the problems studied, the statistical or probabilistic issues involved, and the techniques that have been used to solve these problems. We soon found that many of these topics, as well as other equally interesting Chance course topics, were regularly reported in daily newspapers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times and in weekly journals such as Science, Nature, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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... New York Times, 16 July, 1993, A, I Natalie Angler An article in the 16 July issue of Science reports on a study led by Dean Hamer that suggests that sexual preference has a genetic component.

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... If we wanted an article that would lead to a more extensive discussion, we might choose from the Chance News the article on the recent supreme court decision on determining criteria for admission of scientific evidence in the courts. We could discuss this in terms of the current controversy over the use of DNA fingerprinting.

Read the entire page →

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... You can also get data sets and information about statistical software from the STATLIB archives, and you can even read in those archives the current IMS Bulletin significantly before it appears by mail. All this and more can be found by pointing your gopher to the electronic mail address jse.stat.ncsu.edu, where you will also find the new electronic Journal of Statistics Education.

Read the entire page →

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Chance: A Course About Current Chance News Pages 86-90

Chance: A Course About Current Chance News
Pages 86-90