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ERIC Number: EJ608960
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0098-6283
The Statistically Marvelous Medical Growth Chart: A Tool for Teaching Variability.
Weaver, Kenneth
Teaching of Psychology, v26 n4 p284-86 Aut 1999
Maintains that medical growth charts that have been created by pharmaceutical companies can be utilized to demonstrate a variety of statistical concepts in psychology. Expounds that the charts are based on data collected from 1963-1975 by the National Center for Health Statistics with a sample of over 20,000 children. Provides teaching activities. (CMK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Birth Weight, Charts, Child Development, Educational Strategies, Graphs, Higher Education, Infants, Psychology, Statistics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Variability