The effect of sample size on the meaning of a statistically significant result;L'effetto della numerosità sul significato di un risultato statisticamente significativo. Un commento sull'articolo di benassi et al

Giornale Italiano di Psicologia

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 367-376

  Altoè, Gianmarco ^a   Pastore, Massimiliano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical a level; False Positive report Probability; Null Hypothesis Significance testing; P value; Sample size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886679427     PISSN: 03905349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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