The Spread of Statistical Significance Testing in Psychology: The Case of the Journal of Applied Psychology, 1917-1994

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 545-554

  Hubbard, Raymond ^a   Parsa, Rahul A ^a   Luthy, Michael R ^a  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

inference revolution; p values; replication; significance testing; teaching statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031520589     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354397074006     Document Type: Article

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