materials for a Journal of Statistics Education manuscript. Bret and I are the two authors
In late 2019, JSE issued a call for papers. See the flyer in doc/ subdirectory.
We submitted an abstract to the call, and received a little feedback.
We are now using this repository to write the manuscript.
We want to draw heavily on Nolan and Temple Lang's 2010 article.
December 15, 2019 Submission Deadline. Flier is in doc subdirectory.
https://tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=ujse20&page=instructions#prep
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Updated 17-04-2019
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Nolan and Temple Lang 2010. See the file Rmd/notes.Rmd
- What is our framework's analog of NTL figure 1??
- Also, what is our analog of Table 1 in NTL?
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Re-read G. Box's Science and Statistics JASA article from c. 1976: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pointsofsignificance/img/Boxonmaths.pdf
- Should we steal a figure from Box 1976? Steal ideas?? Feedback loop?