Special section: statistical training and curricular revision what is statistics?

American Statistician

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 105-110

  Brown, Emery N ^a,b   Kass, Robert E ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross disciplinary statistical research; Statistical paradigm; Statistical thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 67549135847     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2009.0019     Document Type: Article

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