Promoting conceptual understanding of statistics: Definitional versus computational formulas

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 251-253

  Guttmannova, Katarina ^a,b   Shields, Alan L ^a,c,d   Caruso, John C ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Dissertation Statistical Services   (United States)

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