Laboratory-tutorial activities for teaching probability

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Wittmann, Michael C ^a   Morgan, Jeffrey T ^a   Feeley, Roger E ^a  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

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EID: 33746870042     PISSN: 15549178     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.2.020104     Document Type: Article

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