effect size

English

Noun

effect size (plural effect sizes)

1. (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.
   • 2017 February 1, Stephen Buranyi, “The high-tech war on science fraud”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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, […]

Synonyms

• (measure of magnitude of effect): treatment effect, ATE

Translations

a measure of the strength or magnitude of the effect

• French: taille d’effet f
• German: Effektstärke f
• Spanish: tamaño del efecto m, magnitud del efecto f

Further reading

• effect size on Wikipedia.Wikipedia