Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Nature Reviews Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2013-04-10

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1038/nrn3475PMID 23571845
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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