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effect sizes

effect sizes is the plural of effect size.

Meaning of effect size

Noun

effect size (plural effect sizes)

  1. 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.
    • 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, […]2017 February 1, Stephen Buranyi, “The high-tech war on science fraud”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    treatment effect, ATE

Questions about effect sizes

What is effect sizes the plural of?
Effect sizes is the plural of effect size.

Words near effect sizes in the dictionary

  1. effascinations
  2. effay
  3. EFFDS
  4. effect
  5. effect size
  6. effect sizes
  7. effectance
  8. effectances
  9. effectatious
  10. effected
  11. effecter

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