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An Expanded Approach to Educating Statistical Consultants

Charles E. McCulloch Biometrics Unit, Department of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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Daniel R. Boroto Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
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Duane Meeter Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
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Ronald Polland Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
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Douglas A. Zahn Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
Pages 159-167 | Received 01 Oct 1982, Published online: 12 Mar 2012

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