How can the quality gap be bridged? Avoiding a future of specialist isolation through statistics education

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 801-810

  McAlevey, Lynn ^a   Everett, Andŕe M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0141798616     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1478336032000091012     Document Type: Article

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