Confidence intervals for an effect size measure based on the Mann-Whitney statistic. Part 1: General issues and tail-area-based methods

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 543-557

  Newcombe, Robert G ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Effect size; Generalized Mann Whitney statistic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRIME; EFFECT SIZE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM SAMPLE; RANK SUM TEST; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; MALE; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 31744441820     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2323     Document Type: Article

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