Using humor in the introductory statistics course

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Friedman, Hershey H ^a   Friedman, Linda W ^b   Amoo, Taiwo ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning enhancement; Stress reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142272430     PISSN: 10691898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2002.11910681     Document Type: Article

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