A parametric bootstrap version of Hedges' homogeneity test

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-79

  Van Den Noortgate, Wim ^a   Onghena, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Effect sizes; Homogeneity; Parametric bootstrap; Q test; Type 1 error

Indexed keywords

EID: 18644381079     PISSN: 15389472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22237/jmasm/1051747620     Document Type: Article

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