Searching for reliable relationships with statistics packages: An empirical example of the potential problems

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 143-151

  Riniolo, Todd C ^a   Schmidt, Louis A ^b  

^a ADAMS STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0034153627     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223980009600857     Document Type: Article

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