Still much to learn about confidence intervals: Reply to rouder and morey (2005)

Psychological Science

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 494-495

  Fidler, Fiona ^a,b   Thomason, Neil ^b   Cumming, Geoff ^a   Finch, Sue ^a   Leeman, Joanna ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 20744459120     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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