Confidence intervals for dependent data: Equating non-overlap with statistical significance

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2296-2305

  Afshartous, David ^a   Preston, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossover trial; Margin of error; Significance test; Type I error

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; ERROR BARS; MARGIN OF ERROR; NON-OVERLAP; SIGNIFICANCE TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TYPE-I ERROR;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 77955269139     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

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