Quantitative research in suicidology: Still a well-disguised blessing?

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 55-59

  De Wilde, Erik Jan ^a  

^a Public Health Service of the Rotterdam Region   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Effect size; Power; Quantitative research; Statistical significance; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036459172     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811110213126     Document Type: Article

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