Applying descriptive statistics to teaching the regional classification of climate

Journal of Geography

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 72-82

  Lindquist, Peter S ^a   Hammel, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Descriptive statistics; Mean; Regional classification; Scatter plot; Standard deviation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; EDUCATION;

EID: 0031718581     PISSN: 00221341     EISSN: 17526868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221349808978830     Document Type: Article

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