Student perceptions of assessment strategies in a multivariate statistics course

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  O'Connell, Ann A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Instructions; Multivariate analysis; Student perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141450089     PISSN: 10691898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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