Calculating effect size for continuous variables: D537 - a robust, quantile-based approach

Physiotherapy

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 309-312

  Conroy, Ronán Michael ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Effect size; Robust statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 80055083170     PISSN: 00319406     EISSN: 18731465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physio.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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