Significance redux

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 665-675

  Ziliak, Stephen T ^a   McCloskey, Deirdre N ^b  

^a ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic significance; Hypothesis testing; Statistical significance

Indexed keywords

EID: 10144239669     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2004.09.038     Document Type: Article

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