Google Spreadsheets for teaching probability?
In business schools it is common to teach statistics courses using Microsoft Excel, due to its wide accessibility and the familiarity of business students with the software. There is a large debate regarding this practice, but at this point the reality is clear: the figure that I am familiar with is about 50% of basic stat courses in b-schools use Excel and 50% use statistical software such as Minitab or JMP. Another trend is moving from offline software to “cloud computing” — Software such as www.statcrunch.com offer basic stat functions in an online, collaborative, social-networky style. Following the popularity of … Continue reading Google Spreadsheets for teaching probability?