Incorporating Statistical Consulting Case Studies in Introductory Time Series Courses

American Statistician

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 387-396

  Khachatryan, Davit ^a  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

ASA guidelines; Bloom s taxonomy; Business forecasting; Entrepreneurship education; Experiential learning; Model building; Statistical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952773286     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1026611     Document Type: Article

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