Testing with confidence: The use (and misuse) of confidence intervals in biomedical research
โ Scribed by Stephen W Marshall
- Book ID
- 114400843
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1440-2440
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