Unicorns Do Exist: A Tutorial on "Proving" the Null Hypothesis

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 756-761

  Streiner, David L ^a,b  

^a Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit and Department of Food and Nutrition Services and Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equivalence testing; Null hypothesis significance testing; Significance testing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HYPOTHESIS; PHILOSOPHY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEACHING; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 1042302883     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674370304801108     Document Type: Article

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