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Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 605-617

  Davidson, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Language testing; Reliability analysis; Statistical analysis software; Statistics; Tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034392064     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(00)00041-5     Document Type: Article

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