Helen MacGillivray

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Helen MacGillivray

Mathematics

#4369

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#6224

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Statistics

#287

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#347

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According to Wikipedia, Helen Louise MacGillivray is an Australian statistician and statistics educator. She is the former president of the International Statistical Institute, the International Association for Statistical Education, and the Statistical Society of Australia, and chair of the United Nations Global Network of Institutions for Statistical Training.

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Helen MacGillivray's Published Works

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Kurtosis: A Critical Review (1988) (424)
Large sample methods in statistics (1993) (224)
Skewness and Asymmetry: Measures and Orderings (1986) (179)
Numerical maximum likelihood estimation for the g-and-k and generalized g-and-h distributions (2002) (112)
Kurtosis and spread (1990) (86)
Learning support and students studying mathematics and statistics (2009) (72)
Theory & Methods: A Starship Estimation Method for the Generalized λ Distributions (1999) (64)
The Mean, Median, Mode Inequality and Skewness for a Class of Densities (1981) (59)
Robustness of ranking and selection rules using generalised g-and-k distributions (1997) (55)
Counting on the basics: mathematical skills among tertiary entrants (2007) (52)
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SKEWNESS AND KURTOSIS (1988) (51)
Understanding evaluation of learning support in mathematics and statistics (2011) (39)
Teaching Statistical Thinking Through Investigative Projects (2011) (37)
Weighted quantile-based estimation for a class of transformation distributions (2002) (30)
Developing and synthesizing statistical skills for real situations through student projects (1998) (22)
Investigating Weaknesses in the Underpinning Mathematical Confidence of First Year Engineering Students (2003) (18)
Coherent and Purposeful Development in Statistics across the Educational Spectrum (2004) (16)
Investigation of Completion Rates of Engineering Students (2007) (15)
Student discovery projects in data analysis (2010) (14)
USING DATA, STUDENT EXPERIENCES AND COLLABORATION IN DEVELOPING PROBABILISTIC REASONING AT THE INTRODUCTORY TERTIARY LEVEL (2006) (13)
Fitting the Generalized Lambda Distribution with Location and Scale-Free Shape Functionals (2007) (13)
Education for a Workplace Statistician (2014) (9)
The Gap between Assumed Skills and Reality in Mathematics Learning (2003) (9)
Topics from Australian Conferences on Teaching Statistics: OZCOTS 2008-2012 (2014) (8)
Making statistics significant in a short course for graduates with widely-varying non-statistical backgrounds (2003) (7)
Normal approximations to discrete unimodal distributions (1986) (7)
NUMERACY AND STATISTICAL REASONING ON ENTERING UNIVERSITY (2006) (7)
Quantitative diversity: disciplinary and cross-disciplinary mathematics and statistics support in Australian universities: A report for the Australian Learning and Teaching Council in the Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program (2008) (6)
A Survey of Real Estate Capital Budgeting Practices in Australia (2009) (5)
Examples from an introductory course in developing probabilistic statistical thinking: Part 1 (2008) (5)
TECHNOLOGY, STATISTICAL THINKING AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS (2002) (5)
Mean, Median, and Mode (2006) (5)
Weaving assessment for student learning in probabilistic reasoning at the introductory tertiary level (2007) (5)
Mixtures, myths and kurtosis (1988) (5)
Criteria, standards and assessment in statistical education (2005) (4)
Clasping Hands and Folding Arms: A Data Investigation (2007) (4)
Enabling Student Ownership of Mathematics and Statistics in their Engineering Learning (2001) (4)
‘You know what I mean’ (2017) (3)
Bridging the Gap between Assumed Knowledge and Reality: A Case for Supplementary Learning Support in Tertiary Engineering Mathematics (2002) (3)
Components of Learning and Assessment in Linear Algebra (2005) (3)
Statistics and data science are NOT branches of mathematics—or of any other discipline (2019) (3)
Data science, statistical investigations, team sport, and assessment (2019) (2)
Working Group Report on Statistics Curriculum: Content and Framing (2004) (2)
Some Ghosts of Statistics Past (2017) (2)
Numeracy Counts in the Statistical Reasoning Equation (2005) (2)
Real probability and probabilistic thinking (2018) (2)
Why Teaching Statistics is so important and challenging (2018) (2)
Variety in Assessment for Learning Statistics (2010) (2)
A crossing theorem for distribution functions and their moments (1985) (2)
Examples from an introductory course in developing probabilistic statistical thinking: Part 2 (2008) (2)
Mean, Median, Mode and Skewness (2004) (2)
Big data and little people (2016) (2)
The moment ratios of particle size distributions in some simple growth models (1980) (2)
Now, more than ever (2020) (2)
Teaching chance for real (2022) (1)
The roles of assessment in learning in statistics and mathematics (2008) (1)
Charting statistical courses (2020) (1)
Preface (2021) (1)
Leadership Across the Diversity of Statistics (2021) (1)
What's in a name? (2018) (1)
A note on the normalised moments of distributions with non-monotonic hazard rate (1981) (1)
Statistics and schooling (2005) (1)
Statistics Education Downunder: a snapshot of a decade and a glance to the future (2001) (1)
Statistics and data science must speak together (2021) (1)
Improving educational connections with authentic statistical practice and real complex data (2016) (1)
Announcing new web‐based submission process: ScholarOne Manuscripts (2017) (0)
What do you, the reader, want? (2022) (0)
Choosing and using data and contexts for learning (2023) (0)
Index of authors, volume 174, 2011 (2011) (0)
Getting the foundations right (2021) (0)
The pinnacle of statistics education is not a single hypothesis test (2016) (0)
Editorial comment (1990) (0)
Lessons from Engineering Students Projects in Statistics (2002) (0)
Peter Holmes Prize Announcement 2022 (2023) (0)
Announcement of Special Issue 2023 in Teaching Statistics (2023) (0)
Improving the time-frequency distribution approach in investigating non-stationary signals (2003) (0)
Peter Holmes Prize Announcement 2021 (2022) (0)
Moment inequalities with applications to particle size distributions (0)
A Thousand Projects: Behind the scenes with student projects in statistics and statistical modelling (2002) (0)
Farewell and thank you. Welcome (2017) (0)
C Oswald George prize announcement 2021 (2022) (0)
Countering default mode in Teaching Statistics (2017) (0)
Announcement and call for submissions to special issue of Teaching Statistics. “Teaching Data Science and Statistics: senior school or introductory tertiary” Editors: Helen MacGillivray, Robert Gould, Jim Ridgway (2020) (0)
Thanks to all (2022) (0)
Seize the statistical teaching moments (2021) (0)
C Oswald George Prize Announcement 2020 (2021) (0)
The how of data (2022) (0)
Tribute to Harvey Goldstein and his statistical achievements (2020) (0)
News about the journal and the 2021 special issue (2021) (0)
Correction: Skewness and Asymmetry: Measures and Orderings (1987) (0)
OZCOTS 2010 Proceedings of the 7 th Australian Conference on Teaching Statistics (2010) (0)
Is there a right way round? (2021) (0)
C Oswald George Prize Announcement 2022 (2023) (0)
Discussion on the paper by Taplin (2007) (0)
Valuation challenges in statistics and data science curricula (2019) (0)
Statistical meaningfulness, teaching craft and writing about teaching statistics and data science (2022) (0)
Teaching Statistics Trust prize for 2021 special issue (2022) (0)
Teachers' perceptions of teaching statistics in schools using the islands (2016) (0)
Staff Development and Teaching and Learning Resources Project (2002) (0)
Thanks to all – And a special thanks to Larry Lesser (2019) (0)
Criterion-based assessment of statistical reasoning, thinking and literacy – early stages (2015) (0)
Contexts, communicating and climbing out of comfort zones (2020) (0)
Review ofVisual Statistics 2.0 (2002) (0)
Moment inequalities of the Liapunov type (1981) (0)
To the global statistics teaching community and contributors to the special issue (2020) (0)

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