Explorations in statistics: Confidence intervals

American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 87-90

  Curran Everett, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation; R; Software

Indexed keywords

EID: 67849097351     PISSN: 10434046     EISSN: 15221229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/advan.00006.2009     Document Type: Article

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