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A Primer on the Understanding, Use, and Calculation of Confidence Intervals That Are Based on Central and Noncentral Distributions.
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Cumming, Geoff; Finch, Sue – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2001
Discusses four reasons for promoting the use of confidence intervals: (1) ease of interpretation; (2) links with familiar statistical tests; (3) promotion of meta-analytic thinking; and (4) increase of information about precision. Discusses calculations of confidence intervals for a basic standardized effect size measure and discusses software for…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Effect Size, Meta Analysis, Research Reports