Desired and feared- What do we do now and over the next 50 years?

American Statistician

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 202-210

  Meng, Xiao Li ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication skills; General education curriculum; Graduate education; Incentive bias; Statistical education; Undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649087217     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2009.09045     Document Type: Article

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