The appropriate use of null hypothesis testing

Psychological Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 379-390

  Frick, Robert W ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001314489     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.1.4.379     Document Type: Article

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