The variable-criteria sequential stopping rule: Generality to unequal sample sizes, unequal variances, or to large ANOVAs

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 918-929

  Fitts, Douglas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 78650680608     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.42.4.918     Document Type: Article

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