The Problem of Multiple Testing

PM and R

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1098-1103

  Sainani, Kristin L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HYPOTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIPLE TESTING; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 72549094509     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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