Teaching Elementary Bayesian Statistics with Real Applications in Science

American Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 241-246

  Berry, Donald A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Statistics and science; Statistics as learning; Teaching elementary statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031513935     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1997.10473970     Document Type: Article

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