A practical guide to calculating Cohen's f 2, a measure of local effect size, from PROC MIXED

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Selya, Arielle S ^a   Rose, Jennifer S ^a   Dierker, Lisa C ^a   Hedeker, Donald ^b   Mermelstein, Robin J ^b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohen's f 2; Effect size; Hierarchical linear modeling; Mixed effects regression; PROC MIXED; R 2; SAS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867138209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00111     Document Type: Article

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