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Direct linkHojat, Mohammadreza; Xu, Gang – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2004
Effect Sizes (ES) are an increasingly important index used to quantify the degree of practical significance of study results. This paper gives an introduction to the computation and interpretation of effect sizes from the perspective of the consumer of the research literature. The key points made are: (1) "ES" is a useful indicator of the…
Descriptors: Definitions, Statistical Significance, Effect Size, Correlation
