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ERIC Number: EJ799825
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Jun
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1082-989X
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A Generally Robust Approach for Testing Hypotheses and Setting Confidence Intervals for Effect Sizes
Keselman, H. J.; Algina, James; Lix, Lisa M.; Wilcox, Rand R.; Deering, Kathleen N.
Psychological Methods, v13 n2 p110-129 Jun 2008
Standard least squares analysis of variance methods suffer from poor power under arbitrarily small departures from normality and fail to control the probability of a Type I error when standard assumptions are violated. This article describes a framework for robust estimation and testing that uses trimmed means with an approximate degrees of freedom heteroscedastic statistic for independent and correlated groups designs in order to achieve robustness to the biasing effects of nonnormality and variance heterogeneity. The authors describe a nonparametric bootstrap methodology that can provide improved Type I error control. In addition, the authors indicate how researchers can set robust confidence intervals around a robust effect size parameter estimate. In an online supplement, the authors use several examples to illustrate the application of an SAS program to implement these statistical methods. (Contains 4 tables, 1 figure, and 24 footnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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