The naïve intuitive statistician: a naïve sampling model of intuitive confidence intervals.

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Psychology Review

• Publication date

  2007-06-30

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/0033-295X.114.3.678PMID 17638502
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