Understanding the effect size and its measures

Biochemia Medica

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 150-163

  Ialongo, Cristiano ^a,b  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biostatistics; Statistical data analysis; Statistical data interpretation

Indexed keywords

BIOSTATISTICS; DATA ANALYSIS; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOSTATISTICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84973450389     PISSN: 13300962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11613/BM.2016.015     Document Type: Article

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