The A-not-B error: Results from a logistic meta-analysis

Child Development

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1297-1313

  Marcovitch, Stuart ^a   Zelazo, Philip David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0033268915     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00095     Document Type: Article

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