Free Textbook Offered to Stats Teachers
B
en King will provide a free copy of completing the course. Indeed, when King was widely admired and respected, not only
the unpublished textbook, Statistical last taught a course using these materials, he for his technical scholarly achievements,
Techniques for Managers, by he and lectured while simultaneously using his lap- but for his unstinting devotion to teaching
Harry V. Roberts, to any teacher of statistics top and a projector in the classroom, often and advising and supporting his colleagues
who is interested in its classroom use. repeating the analytical steps shown in the in their research.
During his final productive years before textbook, an approach that elicited positive King, also an ASA Fellow, is professor
the illness that led to his death, Roberts devel- student response. emeritus of information technology and
oped these unpublished chapters to be used Teachers in MBA programs may be management at Florida Atlantic University.
in the executive MBA program at Chicago. surprised to see the successful coverage of Since he took his first course in statis-
They are especially designed for students “advanced” topics, such as multiple regres- tics from Roberts in 1959, he has shared
with little or no prior exposure to statistics sion, indicator variables, interactions, step- Roberts’ interest in finding the “proper
and with minimal mathematics training. wise procedures, autoregressive time-series, formula” for the design of an introductory
With Roberts’ approval, King edited the and the design of experiments—all in a statistics course for MBA students.
text and translated the non-Windows soft- nonmathematical course designed for 33 to To request Statistical Techniques for
ware illustrations of the original into the 44 hours of lecture. Teachers who are not Managers, send an email to
bfking@nc.rr.
student version of SPSS for Windows. He necessarily involved with MBA or under- com. You will receive a zip file of about
also added a few technical appendices and graduate business programs will still find 4MB containing the nine chapters in .pdf
several examples aimed at clarifying diffi- these materials valuable. format, along with SPSS data files used in
cult concepts. The emphasis throughout is Roberts, a Fellow of the ASA who died the illustrations. The attached file will also
on seeing and doing using real-world data in 2004, was the Sigmund E. Edelstone include homework questions and examples
sets and interactive computing, rather than Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Quality of midterm or final exams. n
dwelling on traditional approaches with Management in the Graduate School of
formulas that most students forget after Business of the University of Chicago. He
The 2008 ASA Election
Don’t forget!
We’re going green.
Your ballot should arrive by email.*
Voting began March 17, 2008,
and ends at midnight on May 15, 2008.
*Those without email addresses on file with the ASA were sent a paper ballot via mail.
APRIL 2008 AMSTAT NEWS 21
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76