Student and professor gender effects in introductory business statistics

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Haley, M Ryan ^a   Johnson, Marianne F ^a   Kuennen, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Business statistics; Education research; Introductory statistics; Student gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049174741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2007.11889549     Document Type: Article

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