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Empirical Research in Software Engineering
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Empirical Research in Software Engineering

by Ruchika Malhotra
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
498 pages
18h 20m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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48 Empirical Research in Software Engineering
b. For continuous variables (variables that do not have any specied range), the
following commonly used effects are of interest:
i. Mean difference: This measure is used when a study reports the same type
of outcome and measures them on the same scale. It is also known as “dif-
ference of means.” It represents the difference between the mean value of
each group (Kictenham 2007). Let
X
g1
and
X
g2
be the mean of two groups
(say g1and g2), which is dened as:
Mean differenceX X
g1 g2
=−
ii. Standardized mean difference: It is used when a study reports the same
type of outcome measure but measur ...
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ISBN: 9781498719735