Cocor: A comprehensive solution for the statistical comparison of correlations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Diedenhofen, Birk ^a   Musch, Jochen ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPENDENT CORRELATION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT CORRELATION; INTELLIGENCE; LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; NONOVERLAPPING CORRELATION; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OVERLAPPING CORRELATION; R PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; RKWARD INTERFACE; WEB INTERFACE; ZOU CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84926443676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121945     Document Type: Article

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