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Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-53

The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Fisherian “Tests” in Biology, and Especially in Medicine

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis in medicine; biometrics; Fisher; Gosset; Jeffreys; level of p; levels of t; Rothman; statistical power in medical research; statistical significance; tests of significance

Indexed keywords


EID: 84865119333     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2009.4.1.44     Document Type: Article
Times cited : (13)

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