The Coordination of Distributional Thinking

Title
The Coordination of Distributional Thinking
Publication Date
2007
Author(s)
Prodromou, Theodosia
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-7756
Email: tprodrom@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:tprodrom
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) & International Statistical Institute (ISI)
Place of publication
Lisbon, Portugal
UNE publication id
une:8560
Abstract
My aim is to trace the thinking-in-change (Noss & Hoyles, 1996) during the co-ordination of two epistemologically distinct faces of distribution. By co-ordination here, I refer to the connection between a data-centric perspective on distribution, which identifies distribution as an aggregated set of actual outputs, and a modelling perspective on distribution, which views distribution as a set of possible outcomes and associated probabilities. The coordination requires that the learner connects in both directions the data that forms a distribution of results to make up the modelling distribution. The dual connection is, I believe, at the heart of informal inference.
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Citation
Proceedings of the 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute

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