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Zieffler, Andrew; Garfield, Joan; delMas, Robert; Reading, Chris – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
Informal inferential reasoning is a relatively recent concept in the research literature. Several research studies have defined this type of cognitive process in slightly different ways. In this paper, a working definition of informal inferential reasoning based on an analysis of the key aspects of statistical inference, and on research from…
Descriptors: Statistics, Introductory Courses, Instruction, Statistical Inference