On the misuse of confidence intervals for two means in testing for the significance of the difference between the means

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 473-478

  Ryan, George W ^a,b   Leadbetter, Steven D ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL   (United States)

Author keywords

Overlapping confidence intervals; Significance tests; Statistical tests of significance; Tests for differences of means

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444419118     PISSN: 15389472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22237/jmasm/1036109580     Document Type: Article

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