Why the P-value culture is bad and confidence intervals a better alternative

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 805-808

  Ranstam, J ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EDITORIAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84862997419     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: 15229653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2012.04.001     Document Type: Editorial

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