Statistical tests of differential susceptibility: Performance, limitations, and improvements

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1267-1278

  Del Giudice, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85008331098     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579416001292     Document Type: Article

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