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Here or There? A Survey of Factors in Multinational R&D Location -- Report to the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Respondent Pool, Statistical Tests, and Presentation of Results
Pages 37-38

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... access is available via a third party to an R&D manager who is familiar with decisions on the placement of R&D facilities. The "third" parties for the second characteristic are industrial research groups that not only provided contact information on R&D managers who are members of the organization, but also sent letters introducing the survey and encouraging participation.
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... The statistical test reported for the data in Figure 5 is Pearson's chi-square test of whether the distributions of years for sites inside and sites outside are significantly different. The level of significance reported for tests is the largest significance level at which the null hypothesis of no difference is rejected.
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