The statistical Crisis in science

American Scientist

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 460-465

  Gelman, Andrew ^a   Loken, Eric ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; STATISTICAL CONCEPT;

EID: 84907936683     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1511/2014.111.460     Document Type: Article

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