The evolving Society: United we stand

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

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 315-335

  Isham, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'People pipeline'; Education; Getstats; Higher education; International review of mathematical sciences; Mathematics in schools; Outreach; Significance; Statistical literacy; Statistics; Statistics in schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858375639     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.01024.x     Document Type: Article

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