Confidence intervals for an effect size when variances are not equal

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 2-13

  Algina, James ^a,d   Keselman, H J ^b,d   Penfield, Randall D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d Department of Educational Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Effect size; Noncentral distribution; Trimmed means; Winsorized variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748935344     PISSN: 15389472     EISSN: 15389472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22237/jmasm/1146456060     Document Type: Article

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