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Power and Effect Size. Errors. Type I Rejecting the Null hypothesis when it is true Type II Failing to reject the Null hypothesis when in fact we should. Errors cont. Power. The probability of rejecting H o when H o is false. Factors affecting Power. Alpha ( ).
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Errors • Type I • Rejecting the Null hypothesis when it is true • Type II • Failing to reject the Null hypothesis when in fact we should.
Power • The probability of rejecting Ho when Ho is false
Factors affecting Power Alpha ()
Factors affecting Power Sample Size
Factors affecting Power • Variability of dependent scores • Statistical test
Factors affecting Power The true alternative hypothesis
Factors affecting Power Effect Size Extent to which the two distributions do not overlap Cohen
Example from Howell p191 - 195 Effect Size for Matched Samples
Harmonic mean Unequal Sample sizes
Power when designing experiments • Cohen • Optimum level of power - .80
Estimating Effect Size • based on previous research - can provide a useful estimate. • estimated using the method of mimimum meaningful differences, i.e. the smallest difference that will matter, • Cohen’s effect size conventions - .2, .5, .8 Meta-analysis