Disattenuation of Correlations Due to Fallible Measurement

Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-65

  Wang, Lihshing Leigh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Disattenuation; Measurement error; Unreliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549091247     PISSN: 15273369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.nainr.2009.12.013     Document Type: Article

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