Teaching Statistics at Google-Scale

American Statistician

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 283-291

  Chamandy, Nicholas ^a   Muralidharan, Omkar ^b   Wager, Stefan ^c  

^a LYFT INC   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Data science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952766536     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1089790     Document Type: Article

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