What Future Quantitative Social Science Research Could Look Like: Confidence Intervals for Effect Sizes

Educational Researcher

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 25-32

  Thompson, Bruce ^a  

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EID: 84996149945     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X031003025     Document Type: Article

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