What are the fundamental facts of a comparison of two treatments' outcomes?

Psychotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 234-236

  Krause, Merton S ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METHODOLOGY; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052670336     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: 19391536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023383     Document Type: Letter

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