Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Fisher, R.A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Fisher, R.A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:692
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Reprints and Reflections

Note on Dr. Berkson’s criticism of tests of significance

R.A. Fisher

The Galton Laboratory

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

When, about eighteen years ago, I was looking for a good example to illustrate the test of straightness appropriate to regression lines, I felt myself particularly lucky to find one in which the departure from linearity was of a somewhat unusual kind, and in which a superficial examination by graphical methods, without submitting the subjective impression to any objective test, was likely to be misleading. The case chosen was from a comprehensive paper by A.H. Hersh . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?