Big Correlations in Little Studies: Inflated fMRI Correlations Reflect Low Statistical Power—Commentary on Vul et al. (2009)

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Perspectives on Psychological Science

• Publication date

  2009-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01127.xPMID 26158966
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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