SAS Code for Calculating Intraclass Correlation Coefficients and Effect Size Benchmarks for Site-Randomized Education Experiments

American Journal of Evaluation

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 85-90

  Brandon, Paul R ^a   Harrison, George M ^a   Lawton, Brian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

effect size benchmarks; group randomized experiments; intraclass correlation coefficients; statistical power analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873473518     PISSN: 10982140     EISSN: 15570878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1098214012466453     Document Type: Article

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