Ani Adhikari
Statistics

Statistics 2: Introduction to Statistics. Population and variables; standard measures of location; spread and association; normal approximation; regression; probability and sampling; binomial distribution; interval estimation; some standard significance tests. Lecture spring 2006.

This is a 75-minute lecture from Introduction to Statistics. Adhikari begins by talking about one of the handouts which she tells her students is the most useful thing she will give them all term. She comes back to the handout throughout the lecture. This is a decidedly low-tech experience with chalk and a blackboard being the primary tools. Adhikari spends much of her time talking through questions and statistical formulas all the while writing out much of the information on six blackboards. Her constant use of the boards is an evolving visual illustration of the principles which dovetail beautifully with what she is saying. Her work on the boards is also a  model of good note taking for her students. All of this is placed in specific contexts like a computer program which simulates coin tossing or the random process of selecting members of a jury panel. Adhikari asks questions and explains the unique language of statistics. She ends the lecture by saying that she never lets her students go without doing some work, so her students take time to solve a problem.