Abuse of hypothesis testing statistics in ecological risk assessment

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 331-347

  Suter II, Glenn W ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Hypothesis testing; Inference; Risk assessment; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001470125     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039609383611     Document Type: Article

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