A Critique and Improvement of the CL Common Language Effect Size Statistics of McGraw and Wong
- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- Published by American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
- Vol. 25 (2), 101-132
- https://doi.org/10.3102/10769986025002101
Abstract
McGraw and Wong (1992) described an appealing index of effect size, called CL, which measures the difference between two populations in terms of the probability that a score sampled at random from the first population will be greater than a score sampled at random from the second. McGraw and Wong introduced this "common language effect size statistic" for normal distributions and then proposed an approximate estimation for any continuous distribution. In addition, they generalized CL to the n-group case, the correlated samples case, and the discrete values case.Keywords
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