Signifying nothing: Reply to Hoover and Siegler

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-55

  McCloskey, Deirdre N ^a   Ziliak, Stephen T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Econometrics; Fisher; Hoover; Significance test; T test

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349116801     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501780801913413     Document Type: Article

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