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Psychological Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 413-419

  Kraemer, Helena Chmura ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effect size; P values; Point biserial correlation coefficient; Two group comparisons

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 30544441017     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.10.4.413     Document Type: Review

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