The birds and the bees: Interactive graphics and problem solving in the teaching of statistics

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 237-246

  Bowman, Adrian ^b   Currall, James ^b   Lyall, Richard ^a  

^a Research Machines Plc   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Authoring tool; Dynamic graphics; Interactive graphics; Teaching; The STEPS projects; XLispStat

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042230283     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018546404769     Document Type: Article

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