A closer look at the effect of preliminary goodness-of-fit testing for normality for the one-sample t-test

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 410-426

  Rochon, Justine ^a   Kieser, Meinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 80053476803     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: 20448317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/2044-8317.002003     Document Type: Article

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