Toward Using Confidence Intervals to Compare Correlations

Psychological Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 399-413

  Zou, Guang Yong ^a,b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

bootstrap; coefficient of determination; confidence interval; hypothesis testing; multiple regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 38349160377     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.12.4.399     Document Type: Article

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