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CohenD

Cohen's Effect Size


Description

Computes the Cohen's d and Hedges'g effect size statistics.

Usage

CohenD(x, y = NULL, pooled = TRUE, correct = FALSE, conf.level = NA, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a (non-empty) numeric vector of data values.

y

a (non-empty) numeric vector of data values.

pooled

logical, indicating whether compute pooled standard deviation or the whole sample standard deviation. Default is TRUE.

correct

logical, indicating whether to apply the Hedges correction. (Default: FALSE)

conf.level

confidence level of the interval. Set this to NA, if no confidence intervals should be calculated. (This is the default)

na.rm

logical. Should missing values be removed? Defaults to FALSE.

Value

a numeric vector with 3 elements:

d

the effect size d

lwr.ci

lower bound of the confidence interval

upr.ci

upper bound of the confidence interval

Author(s)

Andri Signorell <andri@signorell.net>

References

Cohen, J. (1988) Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.) Academic Press, New York.

Hedges, L. V. & Olkin, I. (1985) Statistical methods for meta-analysis Academic Press, Orlando, FL

Smithson, M.J. (2003) Confidence Intervals, Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series, No. 140. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. pp. 39-41

See Also

Examples

x <- d.pizza$price[d.pizza$driver=="Carter"]
y <- d.pizza$price[d.pizza$driver=="Miller"]

CohenD(x, y, conf.level=0.95, na.rm=TRUE)

DescTools

Tools for Descriptive Statistics

v0.99.41
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Andri Signorell [aut, cre], Ken Aho [ctb], Andreas Alfons [ctb], Nanina Anderegg [ctb], Tomas Aragon [ctb], Chandima Arachchige [ctb], Antti Arppe [ctb], Adrian Baddeley [ctb], Kamil Barton [ctb], Ben Bolker [ctb], Hans W. Borchers [ctb], Frederico Caeiro [ctb], Stephane Champely [ctb], Daniel Chessel [ctb], Leanne Chhay [ctb], Nicholas Cooper [ctb], Clint Cummins [ctb], Michael Dewey [ctb], Harold C. Doran [ctb], Stephane Dray [ctb], Charles Dupont [ctb], Dirk Eddelbuettel [ctb], Claus Ekstrom [ctb], Martin Elff [ctb], Jeff Enos [ctb], Richard W. Farebrother [ctb], John Fox [ctb], Romain Francois [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb], Tal Galili [ctb], Matthias Gamer [ctb], Joseph L. Gastwirth [ctb], Vilmantas Gegzna [ctb], Yulia R. Gel [ctb], Sereina Graber [ctb], Juergen Gross [ctb], Gabor Grothendieck [ctb], Frank E. Harrell Jr [ctb], Richard Heiberger [ctb], Michael Hoehle [ctb], Christian W. Hoffmann [ctb], Soeren Hojsgaard [ctb], Torsten Hothorn [ctb], Markus Huerzeler [ctb], Wallace W. Hui [ctb], Pete Hurd [ctb], Rob J. Hyndman [ctb], Christopher Jackson [ctb], Matthias Kohl [ctb], Mikko Korpela [ctb], Max Kuhn [ctb], Detlew Labes [ctb], Friederich Leisch [ctb], Jim Lemon [ctb], Dong Li [ctb], Martin Maechler [ctb], Arni Magnusson [ctb], Ben Mainwaring [ctb], Daniel Malter [ctb], George Marsaglia [ctb], John Marsaglia [ctb], Alina Matei [ctb], David Meyer [ctb], Weiwen Miao [ctb], Giovanni Millo [ctb], Yongyi Min [ctb], David Mitchell [ctb], Franziska Mueller [ctb], Markus Naepflin [ctb], Daniel Navarro [ctb], Henric Nilsson [ctb], Klaus Nordhausen [ctb], Derek Ogle [ctb], Hong Ooi [ctb], Nick Parsons [ctb], Sandrine Pavoine [ctb], Tony Plate [ctb], Luke Prendergast [ctb], Roland Rapold [ctb], William Revelle [ctb], Tyler Rinker [ctb], Brian D. Ripley [ctb], Caroline Rodriguez [ctb], Nathan Russell [ctb], Nick Sabbe [ctb], Ralph Scherer [ctb], Venkatraman E. Seshan [ctb], Michael Smithson [ctb], Greg Snow [ctb], Karline Soetaert [ctb], Werner A. Stahel [ctb], Alec Stephenson [ctb], Mark Stevenson [ctb], Ralf Stubner [ctb], Matthias Templ [ctb], Duncan Temple Lang [ctb], Terry Therneau [ctb], Yves Tille [ctb], Luis Torgo [ctb], Adrian Trapletti [ctb], Joshua Ulrich [ctb], Kevin Ushey [ctb], Jeremy VanDerWal [ctb], Bill Venables [ctb], John Verzani [ctb], Pablo J. Villacorta Iglesias [ctb], Gregory R. Warnes [ctb], Stefan Wellek [ctb], Hadley Wickham [ctb], Rand R. Wilcox [ctb], Peter Wolf [ctb], Daniel Wollschlaeger [ctb], Joseph Wood [ctb], Ying Wu [ctb], Thomas Yee [ctb], Achim Zeileis [ctb]
Initial release
2021-04-09

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