| Article ID: | iaor201522395 |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 23 |
| End Page Number: | 25 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2015 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Turner Stephen, Dabney Alan R |
| Keywords: | statistics: inference, statistics: sampling, statistics: distributions |
Statistical inference relies heavily on the concept of sampling distributions. However, sampling distributions are difficult to teach. We present a series of short animations that are story‐based, with associated assessments. We hope that our contribution can be useful as a tool to teach sampling distributions in the introductory statistics classroom.