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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Item Response Theory1
Models1
Statistical Distributions1
Statistics1
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Teaching Statistics: An…1
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Bedwell, Michael1
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A Straight Look at Skew Distributions
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Bedwell, Michael – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2009
This article argues that the Normal distribution is often not a good model for anthropomorphic data.
Descriptors: Models, Statistical Distributions, Item Response Theory, Statistics