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Was There Information in My Data? Really?

Model Based Inference in the Life Sciences: A Primer on Evidence David R. Anderson New York: Springer, 2008 (xxiv+184 pp.; $39.95 pbk; ISBN 978-0-387-74073-7)

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Fred L. Bookstein

  2. Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Fred L. Bookstein

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Bookstein, F.L. Was There Information in My Data? Really?. Biol Theory 4, 302–308 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1162/biot.2009.4.3.302

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