Confidence and precision increase with high statistical power

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 585-

  Button, Katherine S ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^b   Mokrysz, Claire ^a   Nosek, Brian A ^c   Flint, Jonathan ^d   Robinson, Emma S J ^a   Munafò, Marcus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EFFECT SIZE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LETTER; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84880778593     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3475-c4     Document Type: Letter

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