Using simulation to teach distributions

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Doane, David P ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer intensive methods; Decisions; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942736965     PISSN: 10691898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2004.11910714     Document Type: Review

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