"Magnitude-based Inference": A statistical review

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 874-884

  Welsh, Alan H ^a   Knight, Emma J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (Australia)

Author keywords

bayesian; behrens fisher; confidence interval; frequentist

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; SPORTS MEDICINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BAYES THEOREM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 84925422640     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000451     Document Type: Article

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