Concerns about finding effects that are actually spurious

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 311-316

  Anderson, D R ^a   Burnham, K P ^a   Gould, W R ^a   Cherry, S ^a  

^a Colorado Coop Fish/Wildl Res Unit ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory; Data dredging; Exploratory; Inference; Multivariate methods; P values; Regression models; Significant effects; Spurious results; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035050569     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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