Inflated statistical significance of student's t test associated with small intersubject correlation

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 691-696

  Zimmerman, Donald W ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Correlated observations; Nonindependence; Sample size; Statistical significance; Student t test; Type I error

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042656340     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650310001640129     Document Type: Article

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