A note on the advantages of using linear mixed model analysis with maximal likelihood estimation over repeated measures ANOVAs in psychopharmacology: Comment on Clark et al. (2012)

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1605-1607

  Smith, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LETTER; LINEAR MIXED MODEL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POWER OF A TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84870425361     PISSN: 02698811     EISSN: 14617285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269881112463471     Document Type: Letter

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