Inference by eye: Pictures of confidence intervals and thinking about levels of confidence

Teaching Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 89-93

  Cumming, Geoff ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Displaying data; Interactive software; P values; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649481532     PISSN: 0141982X     EISSN: 14679639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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