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Publication Date: 2008-Jun
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Confidence Intervals for Standardized Linear Contrasts of Means
Bonnett, Douglas G.
Psychological Methods, v13 n2 p99-109 Jun 2008
Most psychology journals now require authors to report a sample value of effect size along with hypothesis testing results. The sample effect size value can be misleading because it contains sampling error. Authors often incorrectly interpret the sample effect size as if it were the population effect size. A simple solution to this problem is to report a confidence interval for the population value of the effect size. Standardized linear contrasts of means are useful measures of effect size in a wide variety of research applications. New confidence intervals for standardized linear contrasts of means are developed and may be applied to between-subjects designs, within-subjects designs, or mixed designs. The proposed confidence interval methods are easy to compute, do not require equal population variances, and perform better than the currently available methods when the population variances are not equal. (Contains 7 tables.)
Descriptors: Intervals, Hypothesis Testing, Effect Size, Sampling, Error of Measurement, Psychology, Periodicals, Monte Carlo Methods, Statistical Analysis
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