A Monte Carlo investigation of the Fisher Z transformation for normal and nonnormal distributions

Psychological Reports

Volumn 87, Issue 3 PART 2, 2000, Pages 1101-1114

  Berry, Kenneth J ^a   Mielke Jr , Paul W ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOMETRY;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 0034574185     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2000.87.3f.1101     Document Type: Article

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