A Primer on the Understanding, Use, and Calculation of Confidence Intervals That Are Based on Central and Noncentral Distributions.

Cumming, Geoff; Finch, Sue

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Publication Date: 2001

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A Primer on the Understanding, Use, and Calculation of Confidence Intervals That Are Based on Central and Noncentral Distributions.

Cumming, Geoff; Finch, Sue

Educational and Psychological Measurement, v61 n4 p532-74 Aug 2001

Discusses four reasons for promoting the use of confidence intervals: (1) ease of interpretation; (2) links with familiar statistical tests; (3) promotion of meta-analytic thinking; and (4) increase of information about precision. Discusses calculations of confidence intervals for a basic standardized effect size measure and discusses software for confidence intervals. (SLD)

Descriptors: Computer Software, Effect Size, Meta Analysis, Research Reports, Statistical Distributions

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Language: English

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