What’s missing in statistical education?

American Statistician

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 149-154

  Snee, Ronald D ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Discovery; Experimental learning; Statistical education; Statistical thinking; Value building

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345811724     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1993.10475964     Document Type: Article

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