Are significance threshholds appropriate for the study of animal behaviour?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1999, Pages

  Stoehr, Andrew M ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0002387961     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1016     Document Type: Article

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