Basic math skills and performance in an introductory statistics course

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Johnson, Marianne ^a   Kuennen, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinants of student performance; Introductory collegiate statistics; Mathematical skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746586488     PISSN: 10691898     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2006.11910581     Document Type: Article

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