Teaching statistics theory through applications

American Statistician

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 370-375

  Nolan, D ^a   Speed, T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Instruction; Quantitative literacy; Statistical thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033479359     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1999.10474492     Document Type: Article

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