Why, when and how to adjust your P values?

Cell Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 604-607

  Jafari, Mohieddin ^a   Ansari Pour, Naser ^b  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bias; Gene expression profiling; Genetic variation; Research design; Statistical data analyses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 85054245913     PISSN: 22285806     EISSN: 22285814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22074/cellj.2019.5992     Document Type: Article

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