Improving the teaching of applied statistics: Putting the data back into data analysis

American Statistician

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 223-230

  Singer, Judith D ^a   Willett, John B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial data; Real data; Statistical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040714917     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1990.10475726     Document Type: Article

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