Ridgway, Jim (2021) 'Covid and data science: Understanding R0 could change your life.', Teaching Statistics, 43 (S1). S84-S92.
Abstract
The Covid epidemic has provided an excellent example of the need to call on a wide variety of statistical tools to address a global problem, and can give students insights into some of the dimensions of data science. Here, we describe some of the characteristics of data that students encounter as citizens. We set out some teaching ideas, which focus on a few familiar core ideas—such as exponential growth, estimation, interpreting graphs, measurement, and sampling—set in the authentic context of containing a pandemic. In the final section, we sketch some more ideas on activities to develop student skills essential for civic engagement in a data-rich world.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0. Download PDF (1103Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12273 |
| Publisher statement: | © 2021 The Author. Teaching Statistics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Teaching Statistics Trust. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Date accepted: | 21 May 2021 |
| Date deposited: | 05 August 2021 |
| Date of first online publication: | 25 June 2021 |
| Date first made open access: | 05 August 2021 |
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