Horses for courses: A fresh look at the horse-kick data
Abstract Familiar to all students of statistics, the Prussian army horse-kick data set teaches us not only about the Poisson distribution, but also the importance of background information in statistical modelling. Antony Unwin and Bill Venables take a fresh look at this famous resource
Authors
- Antony Unwin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5841-5757)
- Bill Venables (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8432-3365)
Institutions
- Augsburg University (US)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Significance
- Published
- 2025-02-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmaf009
- Primary Topic
- Statistics Education and Methodologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00