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Commentary

Minimizing False Positive Error With Multiple Performance Validity Tests: Response to Bilder, Sugar, and Hellemann (2014 this issue)

Pages 1230-1242 | Received 17 Oct 2014, Accepted 12 Nov 2014, Published online: 10 Dec 2014

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