effect size
noun1
Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics 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