Randomly dividing a dataset in R

*Blog post
2007
R software
Author

Steve Simon

Published

March 16, 2007

A regular contributor to EDSTAT-L (DR) mentioned the following interesting resource:

The journal, Teaching Statistics, appears to offer a wide range of interesting articles and this page summarizes the best articles over the past five years. Here’s a list of the articles:

Section 1 Students’ Understanding

  • Teaching Independence (P) H Dahl
  • Secondary Students’ Concepts of Probability R Madsen
  • Statistics and Intuition for the Classroom (P) S Chatterjee and J Hawkes
  • Understanding Conditional Probability S Tomlinson and R Quinn
  • Data Handling: An Introduction to Higher Order Processes J Watson and R Callingham

Section 2 Statistical Topics

  • Assumptions are important: the Paired and Pooled t test J C W Rainer
  • Learning about Extremes S Coles Consecutive Pages Estimating the Size of a Population R Johnson
  • Sampling Errors in Political Polls Z M Kmietowicz
  • Don’t get t out of proportion! G Goodall
  • A Multiple Regression Project R Johnson
  • Exploring Sampling J Nicholson
  • Testing for Differences between two brands of Cookies R C Magel
  • The BioSS Challenge - A demonstration of sampling bias (P) T S Smart

Section 3 Primary School Focus

  • Graphing in the Primary School L Pereira Mendoza
  • Primary Data A Bramwell

Section 4 Practical Activities

  • Teaching by Design A Bowman
  • A Tale of Six Cities N Hunt
  • Don’t discard last week’s TV Guide! A Graham,
  • Tree Slugs C du Feu
  • How Manv Fish are in the Pond? R Johnson
  • Asking Sensitive Questions in Surveys P Hutchinson
  • How long is a piece of string? (P) R Riddiough & J McColl
  • Lawn Toss: Producing Data On-the-Fly E Nordmoe
  • Why Stratify T Hodgson & J Borkowski
  • BUSTLE: a Bus Simulation (P) J Appleby
  • A Sort of Statistics Lesson C du Feu
  • Coke or Pepsi? M Levine & R H Rolwing

Section 5 Using Computers and IT

  • Teaching Statistics through Resampling C Ricketts & J Berry
  • How Long will it take to Build Jack’s House R Riddiough & J McColl!
  • Using Spreadsheets to Calculate Prob(X+Y = w) J C Turner
  • Testing Colour Proportions of M&M’s R W Johnson

Section 6 Statistics at Work

  • Contributions of Biometrics to the Developing World (P) M Darmi & R Poultney
  • Patients. Medicines. Policies and Statistics S Day
  • Determining Adequate Sample Sizes A Fielding

Section 7 Probability Topics

  • Recognising Randomness D Green
  • Coincidences: the truth is out there R Matthews & F Stones
  • Overlap Probabilities and Delay Detonators N T Diamond
  • Squaring the Circle - statistically speaking P Glaister
  • A Probability Game J Melrose
  • A Probability Game - letter R W Johnson

Section 8 Lessons from History

  • The Analysis of Experimental Data. D V Lindley
  • Statisticians have a word for it D Bissell

Section 9 Miscellany

  • World’s 100 largest Cities D Drew & D Steyne
  • The ‘Golden Egg’ (P) H Kimber
  • Scoring Patterns in Rugby League J Croucher
  • Lotteral Thinking? R Watson
  • Murphy’s Law of Maps (P) R Matthews
  • Countering Indifference Using Counterintuitive Examples L Lesser
  • Industrial Visits Work B Gibson
  • How Random was the 1998 World Cup - letter G Simpson
  • Directional Data G Goodall

Note: C Oswald George prize-winning articles are indicated by (P)

Earlier versions are here and here.