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Alphas, betas and skewy distributions: two ways of getting the wrong answer
Although many parametric statistical tests are considered to be robust, as recently shown in Methodologist’s Corner, it still pays to be circumspect about the assumptions underlying statistical tests. In this paper I show that robustness mainly refers to α, the type-I error. If the underlying distri...
Autor principal: | Fayers, Peter |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139856/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21400008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10459-011-9283-6 |
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