Cohen's d 效应量计算

Cohen's d is an effect size used to indicate the standardised difference between two means. It can be used, for example, to accompany reporting of t-test and ANOVA results. It is also widely used in meta-analysis.

Cohen's d is an appropriate effect size for the comparison between two means. APA style strongly recommends use of ESs. Partial eta-squared covers how much variance in a DV is explained by an IV, but that IV possibly has multiple levels and hence partial eta-squared doesn't explain the size of difference between each of the pairwise mean differences.

Cohen's d can be calculated as the difference between the means divided by the pooled SD

 

计算的公式如下：其中，pooled standard deviation是合并后的标准差