Moving the statistics profession forward to the next level

American Statistician

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-14

  Hoerl, Roger W ^a   Snee, Ronald D ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Snee Associates LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Statistical education; Statistical engineering; Statistical thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649123941     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2010.09240     Document Type: Article

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