Statistical Rules of Thumb: Second Edition

Statistical Rules of Thumb: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-272

  van Belle, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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