The importance of estimates and confidence intervals rather than P values

Sociology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 185-190

  Ely, Margaret ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Estimate; P value; Sociology; Statistical significance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033077127     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/s0038038599000103     Document Type: Article

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