If at first you don't succeed, try and try again? the dangers of multiple comparisons

Anaesthesia

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 718-720

  Choi, S W ^a   Wong, G T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEART; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84961574387     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13468     Document Type: Article

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