Incorporating laboratory experiments in an introductory statistics course

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Martinez Dawson, Rose ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiments; Hands on activities; Interdisciplinary; SAS

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042665769     PISSN: 10691898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2003.11910697     Document Type: Article

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