Estimating the Standardized Mean Difference in Intervention Studies

Robert L. Fowler

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1988, vol. 13, issue 4, 337-350

Abstract: Methods for approximating confidence intervals for the population standardized mean difference, δ , were evaluated analytically in small samples. A procedure based on the large sample approximation of the distribution of the sample standardized mean difference d was quite accurate over most of the range .25 ≤ δ ≤1.5 and 6 ≤ N ≤ 40 examined. Use of Hedges’s adjustment to d yielded confidence intervals that were slightly conservative, whereas the unadjusted d produced intervals that were somewhat liberal. An empirically determined simple linear adjustment to d demonstrated the most consistent precision when used to construct confidence intervals for δ , having a maximum error of less than 2% of the nominal level of confidence over the effect size range of most interest to behavioral scientists.

Keywords: effect size; meta-analysis; confidence intervals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.3102/10769986013004337

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