You can load a die, but you can't bias a coin

American Statistician

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 308-311

  Gelman, Andrew ^a   Nolan, Deborah ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom activity; Experimental design; Fair coin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036842908     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313002605     Document Type: Article

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