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Beyond Significance Testing: Instructor Resource Guide
Rex B. Kline, PhD

Web Resources

Some of the links below include free (shareware) tools for constructing confidence intervals for effect sizes and related types of data analyses. I hope this material assists you in developing your knowledge about alternative data analysis methods.

General

• Lee Becker's site on effect sizes
• HyperStat section on effect sizes
• Gene Glass's paper, "Meta-Analysis at 25"
• Report of Wilkinson and the TFSI (1999)
• Research in the Schools special issue (Fall 1998)
• Bruce Thompson's list of journals that require effect sizes
• William Thompson's list of citations about indiscriminate uses of statistical tests

Software for Calculating Effect Sizes (** = free version available)

• ES (standardized mean differences; free trial version)  **
• ESCI (noncentral confidence intervals based on standardized mean differences)  **
• STATISTICA 7 Power Analysis (noncentral confidence intervals, power estimation)
• PSY (standardized contrasts and approximate confidence intervals)  **
• R2 (confidence interval estimation, power estimation based on R²)  **
• Smithson's SPSS macros (noncentral confidence intervals for eta-squared)  **

Software for Resampling or Bayesian Estimation (** = free version available)

• Peter Lee's C++ programs (Bayesian estimation)  **
• First Bayes (teaching program for Bayesian analyses)  **
• SimStat Bootstrap module (resampling)  **
• Resampling (randomization and bootstrapping)  **
• WinBUGS (teaching program for Bayesian estimation)  **

Calculating Web Pages, Applets, or Other Free Software

• Micah Altman's list of free statistical software for behavioral scientists
• Lee Becker's effect size calculators
• Russ Lenth's power analysis applets
• John Pezzullo's list of interactive Web pages and applets
• UBC clinical significance calculator