RUDN Journal of Informatization in Education (Dec 2013)

New technologies wolframalpha while studying quantitative methods by bachelors

  • D A Vlasov,
  • A V Sinchukov

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 4
pp. 43 – 53

Abstract

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The purpose of this article — representation of the main results of research of didactic opportunities of the new WolframAlpha technologies when studying quantitative methods by students of a bachelor degree. Research is conducted on the example of realization of a method of the smallest squares (MMK, OLS, Ordinary Least Squares) — a basic, available and widely applied method of the regression analysis. This quantitative method offered by Charles Friedrich Gauss and Adrien Mari Legendre, is used for an assessment of unknown parameters of models of approximation (including regression models) on the experimental data having various substantial semantic loading.

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