Setting an optimal α that minimizes errors in null hypothesis significance tests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Mudge, Joseph F ^a   Baker, Leanne F ^a   Edge, Christopher B ^a   Houlahan, Jeff E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84857581844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032734     Document Type: Article

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