Towards more accessible conceptions of statistical inference

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 247-295

  Wild, C J ^a   Pfannkuch, M ^a   Regan, M ^a   Horton, N J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer animations; Informal inference; Sampling variation; Statistical inference; Statistics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952611485     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00678.x     Document Type: Article

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