In support of null hypothesis significance testing

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2004, Pages

  Mogie, Michael ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Null hypothesis significance testing; p value

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; DATA ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS; LOGIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0442291845     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0105     Document Type: Review

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