How confident are students in their misconceptions about hypothesis tests?

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Castro Sotos, Ana Elisa ^a   Vanhoof, Stijn ^a   van den Noortgate, Wim ^a   Onghena, Patrick ^a  

^a NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Confidence; Misconceptions p value; Misconceptions significance level; University students

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649109312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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