A closer look at a relatively neglected mean

Teaching Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 76-80

  Lann, Avital ^a   Falk, Ruma ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Self weighted mean; Self weighted selection; Teaching; Uniformity heuristic; Weighted mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750906580     PISSN: 0141982X     EISSN: 14679639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2005.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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