Sample size and the detection of correlation - A signal detection account: Comment on Kareev (2000) and Juslin and Olsson (2005)

Psychological Review

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 268-279

  Anderson, Richard B ^a   Doherty, Michael E ^a   Berg, Neil D ^a   Friedrich, Jeff C ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 12344324743     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.112.1.268     Document Type: Review

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