Common fallacies in applying hypothesis testing

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Li, X Rong ^a   Li, Xiao Bai ^b  

^a UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Application; Confusion; Fallacy; Hypothesis testing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; DATA FUSION; FUSION REACTIONS; INFORMATION FUSION; KETONES;

CONFUSION; FALLACY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PAPER ADDRESSES; SIGNIFICANCE TESTS; STATISTICAL PROCESSING;

WELL TESTING;

EID: 56749153171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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