On judging the significance of differences by examining the overlap between confidence intervals

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 182-186

  Schenker, Nathaniel ^a   Gentleman, Jane F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Inference; Power; Test of significance; Two sample problem; Type I error

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035590266     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001317097960     Document Type: Article

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