Easy Implementation of Writing in Introductory Statistics Courses

American Statistician

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 159-163

  Stromberg, Arnold J ^a   Ramanathan, Subathra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Peer evaluations; Statistics education; Writing across the curriculum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030343390     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1996.10474365     Document Type: Article

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