Engineering students designing a statistical procedure for quantifying variability

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 178-188

  Hjalmarson, Margret A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Problem solving; Statistics; Undergraduate engineering; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547808741     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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