Posts tagged: effect size

Effect Sizes and Cohen's d in Biomedical Research

A p-value answers one question: how surprised should I be if the null hypothesis were true? It says nothing about whether the effect matters clinically. A trial of 50,000 patients can return p < 0.0001 for a drug that lowers blood pressure by 0.3 mmHg — a difference invisible to any clinician ...

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