Follow the fundamentals: Four data analysis basics will help you do big data projects the right way

Quality Progress

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 24-28

  Snee, Ronald D ^a   DeVeaux, Richard D ^b   Hoerl, Roger W ^c  

^a Snee Associates LLC   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

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