Inferences about competing measures based on patterns of binary significance tests are questionable

Psychological Methods

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 84-93

  Shrout, Patrick E ^a   Yip Bannicq, Marika ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Social interaction; Statistical inference; Test validity

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PSYCINFO; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THINKING; VALIDITY; HUMAN RELATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 85009968740     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/met0000109     Document Type: Article

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