%0 Journal Article %T Estrategias en el estudio de la asociaci¨®n en tablas de contingencia por estudiantes de psicolog¨ªa %A Ca£¿adas %A Gustavo %A Batanero %A Carmen %A Contreras %A Jos¨¦ Miguel %A Arteaga %A Pedro %J Educaci¨®n matem¨¢tica %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X contingency tables are essential tools for the professional work of psychologists and other health-care professionals; however, little attention is paid to its teaching. in this work we describe an exploratory study of the different strategies that a sample of psychology students used to establish the possible association of two variables, presented in contingency tables. results are compared with a previous study by estepa (1993) with high school students and implicit semiotic conflicts are identified in the partially correct and incorrect strategies. %K contingency tables %K association %K strategies %K university teaching. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-58262011000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en