A Bayes factor meta-analysis of Bem's ESP claim

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 682-689

  Rouder, Jeffrey N ^a   Morey, Richard D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ESP; Statistical inference; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARAPSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 79960020818     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0088-7     Document Type: Article

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