Inside the learning curve: Opening the black box of the learning curve

Learning Curves: Theory, Models, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 23-35

  Lapré, Michael A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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