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Learning Statistics by Doing or by Describing: The Role of Software

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COMPSTAT 2004 — Proceedings in Computational Statistics

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Paper discusses several key questions connected with the teaching, and learning, statistics. Among the problem covered belong: whom to teach, what type of presentation to chose, how and in which extend to use computers...

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  1. University of Vienna, Austria

    Erich Neuwirth

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Department of Statistics and Probability, Charles University, Sokolovská 83, 18675, Prague 8 - Karlin, Czech Republic

    Jaromir Antoch

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Neuwirth, E. (2004). Learning Statistics by Doing or by Describing: The Role of Software. In: Antoch, J. (eds) COMPSTAT 2004 — Proceedings in Computational Statistics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2656-2_28

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