Confidence intervals and tests are two sides of the same research question

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Perezgonzalez, Jose D ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CI; Confidence interval; Fisher; Neyman Pearson; NHST; Significance testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926507560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00034     Document Type: Note

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