Power rangers: No improvement in the statistical power of analyses published in Animal Behaviour

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 347-352

  Smith, Daniel R ^a,b   Hardy, Ian C W ^b   Gammell, Martin P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Effect size; Power analysis; Sample size; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650190397     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.09.026     Document Type: Note

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