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Why not include more history in your teaching? The History of Statistics Interest Group library has a collection of Activities for Classes: https://community.amstat.org/historyofstats/ourlibrary/new-item2

We are pleased to let you know that Bob Rosenfeld has created 13 history of probability and statistics teaching modules, and he has kindly made them available for you to use in your classes! We hope you will find them to be useful.

 

Reading and Exercises on the History of Probability from the Vermont Mathematics Initiative, Bob Rosenfeld

• Pre-history to 1600 (PDF)
• 17th Century France (PDF)
• Jacob Bernoulli - Law of Large Numbers (PDF)
• Inverse Probability - Thomas Bayes (PDF)
• Laplace (PDF)

Reading and Exercises on the History of Statistics from the Vermont Mathematics Initiative, Bob Rosenfeld

• John Graunt and the Bills of Mortality (PDF)
• Origin of the Normal Curve (PDF)
• Origins of Graphs in Statistics (PDF)
• Fitting models to data - the Path to Least Squares (PDF)
• Statistics Moves from Physical to Social Sciences (PDF)
• Correlation - Francis Galton (PDF)
• t-Distirbution and Gosset (PDF)
• Fisher and Design of Experiments (PDF)

 

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Amanda Golbeck
Chair, ASA History of Statistics Interest Group
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Biostatistics
UAMS - Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
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Thank you for posting these! Wonderful resources!

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Diane Evans
Professor
Rose Hulman Inst. of Tech.
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The material Amanda shared is excellent and extremely useful for faculty and students.

I am so impressed by the generosity of Amanda Golbeck.

Thanks a LOT Amanda for this amazing contribution.

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Evelio Velis, MD, PhD
Professor and Program Director
Health Management Programs
Barry University
Miami Shores, FL 33161
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Thank you VERY much for posting all of this valuable information. I'm a big fan of including historical material in our courses.

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David Giles
Professor of Economics
University of Victoria
Canada
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