When one size does not fit all: A simple statistical method to deal with across-individual variations of effects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Vindras, Philippe ^a   Desmurget, Michel ^a   Baraduc, Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POWER OF A TEST; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VARIANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84862505689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039059     Document Type: Article

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