effect size
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
effect size (plural effect sizes)
- (statistics) A measure of the strength or magnitude of the effect of an independent variable on a dependent variable in an experiment or a quasi-experiment.
- 2017 February 1, Stephen Buranyi, “The high-tech war on science fraud”, in The Guardian[1]:
- He spent a year breaking down the 45 studies Stapel produced at Tilburg and cataloguing their individual aberrations, noting where the effect size – a standard measure of the difference between the two groups in an experiment – seemed suspiciously large, […]
Synonyms[edit]
- (measure of magnitude of effect): treatment effect, ATE
Translations[edit]
a measure of the strength or magnitude of the effect
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Further reading[edit]
- effect size on Wikipedia.Wikipedia