Confidence intervals better answers to better questions

Journal of Psychology

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-26

  Cumming, Geoff ^a   Fidler, Fiona ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Effect sizes; Estimation; P values; Prep probability of replication

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649550108     PISSN: 00443409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0044-3409.217.1.15     Document Type: Article

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