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Clintin P. Davis-Stober; Jason Dana; David Kellen; Sara D. McMullin; Wes Bonifay – Grantee Submission, 2023
Conducting research with human subjects can be difficult because of limited sample sizes and small empirical effects. We demonstrate that this problem can yield patterns of results that are practically indistinguishable from flipping a coin to determine the direction of treatment effects. We use this idea of random conclusions to establish a…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Sample Size, Effect Size, Hypothesis Testing
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Olejnik, Stephen F.; Algina, James – 1984
Five distribution-free alternatives to parametric analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) are presented and demonstrated using a specific data example. The procedures considered are those suggested by Quade (1967); Puri and Sen (1969); McSweeney and Porter (1971); Burnett and Barr (1978); and Shirley (1981). The results of simulation studies investigating…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Comparative Analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Mathematical Formulas