Use of R as a toolbox for mathematical statistics exploration

American Statistician

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 343-357

  Horton, Nicholas J ^a   Brown, Elizabeth R ^b   Qian, Linjuan ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematical statistics education; Statistical computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744281742     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313004X5572     Document Type: Review

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