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Estimation for Better Inference in Neuroscience

Robert J. Calin-Jageman and Geoff Cumming
eNeuro 1 August 2019, 6 (4) ENEURO.0205-19.2019; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0205-19.2019
Robert J. Calin-Jageman
1Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois 60305
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2La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
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https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0205-19.2019
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  • Received May 31, 2019
  • Revision received June 3, 2019
  • Accepted June 8, 2019
  • Published online August 1, 2019.
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Copyright © 2019 Calin-Jageman and Cumming This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Robert J. Calin-Jageman1 and
  2. Geoff Cumming2
  1. 1Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois 60305
  2. 2La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Robert J. Calin-Jageman at rcalinjageman{at}dom.edu.
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  • The authors declare a competing financial interest that they have published a textbook on the estimation approach.

  • This work was partially supported by NIGMS Grant 1R25GM132784-01. We thank Sander Greenland, Paul S. Katz, Anthony Krafnick, Daniel Lakens, Blakely McShane, Gjalt-Jorn Peters, Rebecca Pliske, and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers for helpful and incisive comments, and Daniel Quintana for feedback on our discussion of oxytocin and human social behavior.

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  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

    1R25GM132784-01

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