Telling data stories: Essential dialogues for comparative reasoning

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-38

  Pfannkuch, Maxine ^a   Regan, Matt ^a   Wild, Chris ^a   Horton, Nicholas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual schema; Interpreting box plots; Language; Thinking routines; Verbalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955491973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2010.11889479     Document Type: Article

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