ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a vital aspect of the repeated sampling thought experiment described in Chapter 3 that highlighted the importance of variation – namely, the processes we imagine carrying out as part of such experiments. Although it is rarely a focus in statistics and probability instruction, understanding and distinguishing the nature of processes within statistical and probabilistic thinking is vital and leads to a coherent way of understanding randomness and conceiving of probability as the quantification of a random process's long-run tendency.
