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A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
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Birth: | 14th March, 1942 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Professor, Statistician, Writer |
Edward Rolf Tufte was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He received a BS and MS in statistics from Stanford University and a PhD in political science from Yale. His dissertation, completed in 1968, was entitled The Civil Rights Movement and Its Opposition.
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