Confidence intervals for the standardized effect arising in the comparison of two normal populations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2853-2871

  Kulinskaya, Elena ^a   Staudte, Robert G ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Effect size; Meta analysis; Variance stabilizing transformation; Welch t test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VARIANCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 34249875673     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2751     Document Type: Article

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