Measuring effect size: A robust heteroscedastic approach for two or more groups

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1359-1368

  Rand, R Wilcox ^a   Tian, Tian S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohen's d; Effect size; Heteroscedasticity explanatory power; Outliers; Robust methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956350617     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2010.498507     Document Type: Article

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