HCI.. not as it should be: Inferential statistics in HCI research

People and Computers XXI HCI.But Not as We Know It - Proceedings of HCI 2007: The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Cairns, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assumptions; HCI; Inferential statistics; Overtesting; Reporting statistics; Research methods

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ASSUMPTIONS; HCI RESEARCHES; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; OVERTESTING; PAPER SURVEYS; REPORTING STATISTICS; STATISTICAL TESTING;

STATISTICS;

EID: 83455242534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2007.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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