Developing a New Interdisciplinary Computational Analytics Undergraduate Program: A Qualitative-Quantitative-Qualitative Approach

American Statistician

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 397-408

  Leman, Scotland ^a   House, Leanna ^a   Hoegh, Andrew ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMDA; Computational education; Curriculum; GAISE; QQQ; Statistical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952795520     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1090337     Document Type: Article

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