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Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller and Jordan Smoller
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Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology
Jordan Smoller: Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Genetic Research

Chapter Chapter 3 in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 2015, pp 27-81 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Different statistical techniques are appropriate depending on whether the variables of interest are discrete or continuous. We will first consider the case of discrete variables and present the chi-square test, and then we will discuss methods applicable to continuous variables.

Keywords: Null Hypothesis; Confidence Limit; Heart Attack; True Population; Bonferroni Procedure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2134-8_3

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