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Mickelson, W.T., Heaton, R.M. (2004). Primary Teachers’ Statistical Reasoning about Data. In: Ben-Zvi, D., Garfield, J. (eds) The Challenge of Developing Statistical Literacy, Reasoning and Thinking. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2278-6_14
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