Students’ conceptual understanding of the standard deviation

Thinking with Data

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-116

  delMas, Robert C ^a   Liu, Yan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 37649017256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203810057     Document Type: Chapter

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