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Barbara Illowsky

Senior contributing author of illowsky-introductory-statistics, of de-anza-college, writing with susan-dean. Discovered while ingesting that book.

The pair’s earlier Collaborative Statistics is the stated foundation of the openstax text, and the statistics labs carried into it are credited to them specifically — end-of-chapter activities where students design and run an analysis rather than work an exercise. In a book that otherwise declines to derive anything, those labs are where its pedagogical argument actually lives.

Community-college faculty are a first for this spoke’s author roster, which until now ran through research universities and one adjunct at schoolcraft-college. The audience matches: a one-semester service course for students not majoring in mathematics.

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illowsky-introductory-statistics · susan-dean · openstax · mathematical-statistics