Using classroom data to teach students about data cleaning and testing assumptions

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Cummiskey, Kevin ^a   Kuiper, Shonda ^b   Sturdivant, Rodney ^a  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^b GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Guided Interdisciplinary Statistics Games and Labs; Messy data; Model assumptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867127927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00354     Document Type: Article

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