Teaching Introductory Statistics Courses So That Nonstatisticians Experience Statistical Reasoning

American Statistician

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-78

  Bradstreet, Thomas E ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphics; Intimate teaching; Real data; Situated learning; Statistical anxiety; Statistical reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030555699     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1996.10473545     Document Type: Article

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