The knowledge content of statistical data

Psychometrika

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 133-161

  Preuss, Lucien ^a   Vorkauf, Helmut ^b  

^a Swiss Fed Office of Public Health ^*  (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Association; Cross classification; Entropy; Inference; Information; Paradox; Significance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031504635     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294784     Document Type: Article

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