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This chapter provides an overview of the three major effect sizes that will be used in the book: the standardized mean difference, the correlation coefficient, and the log odds ratio. The notation that will be used throughout the book is also introduced.
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Pigott, T.D. (2012). Review of Effect Sizes. In: Advances in Meta-Analysis. Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2278-5_2
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