Standard errors and confidence intervals in within-subjects designs: Generalizing Loftus and Masson (1994) and avoiding the biases of alternative accounts

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 395-404

  Franz, Volker H ^a   Loftus, Geoffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Repeated measures; Statistical inference; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860860568     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0230-1     Document Type: Article

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