Statistical power: planning for it, estimating it post hoc, and reporting it

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 345-354

  Battle, Mary Vroman ^a,b   Cowan Jr , George S M ^c   Rakow, Ernest A ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALSE NULL HYPOTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICAL POWER; TRUE NULL HYPOTHESIS;

CALCULATIONS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 0034482020     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.888810     Document Type: Article

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