UNDERSTANDING THE NEW STATISTICS: EFFECT SIZES, CONFIDENCE INTERVALS, AND META-ANALYSIS

Understanding the New Statistics: Effect Sizes, Confidence Intervals, and Meta-Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-522

  Cumming, Geoff ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203807002     Document Type: Book

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