What Statistical Significance Means

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 323-330

  Chow, Siu L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

chance; control; reliability; replication; statistical significance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542443353     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354398083003     Document Type: Article

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