Increased Reliability for Single-Case Research Results: Is the Bootstrap the Answer?

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 326-338

  Parker, Richard I ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT SELECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33750426287     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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