Practical Significance: Ordinal Scale Data and Effect Size in Zooarchaeology

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 255-265

  Wolverton, S ^a   Dombrosky, J ^a   Lyman, R L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Effect size; Hypothesis testing; Non parametric statistics; Practical significance; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962174363     PISSN: 1047482X     EISSN: 10991212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oa.2416     Document Type: Article

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