Electronic Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Boston, Massachusetts, February 15-18, 2007

Paper S083

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-55846-4, Copyright (C) 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Baseball And Statistics: An Exploration Using Excel In A First-Semester Statistics Course

Raimundo Kovac


Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI 02908
USA


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Rebecca Sparks


Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI 02908
USA


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Christopher Teixeira


Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI 02908
USA


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ABSTRACT

Widespread access to Excel and its statistical functions allows even first-semester statistics students to work with large data sets from interesting examples that once were awkward for classroom and homework use. We exploit this by using baseball pitching statistics in explorations of the Central Limit Theorem and linear regression.

Keyword(s): statistics, spreadsheets