How skewed are psychological data? A standardized index of effect size

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 355-359

  Malgady, Robert G ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERIODICALS; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS;

EID: 34548275888     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GENP.134.3.355-360     Document Type: Article

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