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Commentary

Statistical Reversion toward the Mean: More Universal than Regression toward the Mean

Myra L. Samuels Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
Pages 344-346 | Received 01 Sep 1989, Published online: 27 Feb 2012

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