The dangers of reporting spurious regression to the mean

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 800-802

  Nevill, Alan ^a   Holder, Roger ^b   Atkinson, Greg ^c   Copas, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPORTS MEDICINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 5044231543     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410410001675487     Document Type: Editorial

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