"It's like...you know": The use of analogies and heuristics in teaching introductory statistical methods

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Martin, Michael A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

"Teaching With Analogies"; Expectation; Graphical displays; Hypothesis testing; Influence diagnostics; Regression models; Structure mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042677823     PISSN: 10691898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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