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ArticleSocial psychological and personality science2017

Equivalence Tests: A Practical Primer for

Daniël Lakens

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Article in Social psychological and personality science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 664 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

664 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Daniël LakensHuman Technology Interaction Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scientists should be able to provide support for the absence of a meaningful effect. Currently, researchers often incorrectly conclude an effect is absent based a nonsignificant result. A widely recommended approach within a frequentist framework is to test for

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equivalence testingnull hypothesis significance testingpower analysisresearch methods

Identifiers

PMID28736600
PMCPMC5502906

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