Teaching for statistical literacy and services of statistics agencies

American Statistician

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 80-84

  Gal, Iddo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adult education; Critical reading; Numeracy; Official statistics; Statistics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038273968     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130031469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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