I hear, I forget. I do, I understand: A modified moore-method mathematical statistics course

American Statistician

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 219-228

  Horton, Nicholas J ^a  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capstone course; Empirical problem solving; Intermediate statistics; R software; Reproducible analysis; RStudio integrated development environment; Simulation studies; Statistical computing; Statistical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901811028     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2013.849207     Document Type: Article

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