Despite the "rules of thumb" for various measures of effect size, what is common in the literature for a particular area is a better guide.
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Annette Taylor <tay...@sandiego.edu> wrote: > > I am a stats moron by self-description. Although I "aced" stats in > graduate school in the 1970's/1980's I am woefully behind in anything new > since then. > > So I would appreciate if someone can give me at least a quick and dirty > heuristic for interpreting the size of partial eta squared in SPSS. I did > google it but got little helpful guidance. > > Here is the situation: I have a 2 x 2 x 2 anova with a main effect on one > of the variables. Here is the output line: > Source Type III Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig. Partial Eta > Squared > Refute2 11.593 1 11.593 10.004 .002 > .061 > Error 179.626 155 1.159 > Total 1302.000 163 > > > I am concerned that even though the p value is quite nice, the partial eta > squared at .061 is hard to make sense of. Is this a good effect size or is > this a tiny effect size? > > Thanks to you stats mavens! Reading about eta squared versus partial eta > squared just didn't answer my questions. > > Annette > > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. > Professor, Psychological Sciences > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park > <https://maps.google.com/?q=5998+Alcala+ParkSan+Diego,+CA&entry=gmail&source=g> > San Diego, CA > <https://maps.google.com/?q=5998+Alcala+ParkSan+Diego,+CA&entry=gmail&source=g> > 921210 > tay...@sandiego.edu > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: micha...@uca.edu. > > To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=357701. > a768e95c4963686e69b47febf8aa657a&n=T&l=tips&o=51859 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to leave-51859-357701.a768e95c4963686e69b47febf8aa65 > 7...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > -- Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 501-450-5418 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=51860 or send a blank email to leave-51860-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
