What Your Statistician Never Told You about P-Values

Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 439-444

  Blume, Jeffrey ^a,b   Peipert, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a Women and Infants Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0346734176     PISSN: 10743804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-3804(05)60143-0     Document Type: Article

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