This article, created by B. Dudley of the University of Keele, describes the process the of capturing and recapturing of mobile animals in order to estimate population size. The author discusses this lesson, he states,...

Based at the University of Plymouth, the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching has developed many instructional materials designed to help both novice and experienced math teachers. This particular area of their...

Created by Gavin Gibson of Heriot Watt University, this file applies the Cramer-Rao inequality to a binomial random variable to prove that the usual estimator of p is a minimum variance unbiased estimator. This is a...

This classroom example illustrates the concept that estimators are random variables. The example makes use of the classic problem of estimating the size of a population by observing serial numbers, specifically...

Published by MIT and created by Professor Dmitry Panchenko for the Spring semester of 2005, this online course provides an introduction to probability and statistics for undergraduate students. The topics included are...