The Many Facets of Statistics Education: 175 Years of Common Themes

American Statistician

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 100-107

  Utts, Jessica ^a  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

History of statistics; Lemuel Shattuck; Statistical literacy; Statistics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934300958     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1033981     Document Type: Article

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