Where's the evidence?

Human Heredity

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-66

  Vieland, Veronica J ^a  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Evidence; Likelihood ratios; p values; Statistical inference; Thermodynamics; Thermometry

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CALIBRATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CALIBRATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79952729383     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324838     Document Type: Review

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