Assessing evidence in multiple hypotheses

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 435, 1996, Pages 1268-1277

  Goutis, Constantinos ^a   Casella, George ^b   Wells, Martin T ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian posterior probabilities; Combining experiments; Hypothesis testing; Meta analysis; p values

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030336511     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476996     Document Type: Article

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