The importance of effect sizes

Sil Aarts, Marjan van den Akker, Björn Winkens

2013-08-30articleEuropean Journal of General Practice118 citationsbronze

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Abstract

KEY MESSAGE:Statistical significance testing alone is not the most adequate manner to evaluate if there is indeed a clinically relevant effect.Effect sizes should be added to significance testing.E...

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