What should we do about hypothesis testing?

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 241-247

  Eberhardt, L L ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiments; Hypothesis testing; Model selection; Modeling; Population analysis; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MODELING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0038709546     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802765     Document Type: Article

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