Abstract
This paper introduces a free web app for teaching regression that inverts'' the usual pedagogy. Rather than asking students to run regressions on data, it asks them tocreate’’ data to achieve a given outcome, like a statistically significant line. By clicking on an (x, y) graph, students watch as the regression line, with its confidence intervals and statistics, is redrawn with each new data point. We describe three self-guided exercises, designed to teach the ideas of statistical significance and the difference between correlation and causality.
Presenters
Luke FroebBilly Oehmig Chair of Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Theme
Considering Digital Pedagogies
KEYWORDS
TEACHING REGRESSION, CAUSALITY VS. CORRELATION, STATISTICS, HYPOTHESIS TESTING
