Quantitative methods in psychology: Inevitable and useless

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2010, Pages

  Toomela, Aaro ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Causality; Constructive experiment; Epistemology; Mathematics; Quantitative methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866775100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00029     Document Type: Article

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