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Down With the Mean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

L. E. Clarke*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of East Anglia

Extract

Despite its title, this article is not intended as a clarion call against miserliness, but rather as a plea for a greater use of non-parametric methods in the teaching of statistics to sixth-forms.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1971

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