A problem-solving approach to teaching business statistics

American Statistician

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 249-256

  Hillmer, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Root cause analysis; Statistical thinking; Teaching statistics; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030327425     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1996.10474392     Document Type: Article

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