Statistical laboratories using minitab, SPSS and excel: A practical comparison

Teaching Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 68-75

  Prvan, Tania ^a   Reid, Anna ^b   Petocz, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Statistical laboratories; Statistical packages; Statistics education; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 18344392417     PISSN: 0141982X     EISSN: 14679639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9639.00089     Document Type: Article

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