A farewell to Bonferroni: the problems of low statistical power and publication bias

Behavioral Ecology - Tập 15 Số 6 - Trang 1044-1045 - 2004
Shinichi Nakagawa1
1Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom

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