Living with P values: Resurrecting a bayesian perspective on frequentist statistics

Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 62-68

  Greenland, Sander ^a   Poole, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

EID: 84871776347     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182785741     Document Type: Review

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