title: Interpreting the standardized difference.
abstract: An interpretation of the standardized difference is given which assists in judging the importance of such a difference. This is useful for designing two sample studies when information on mean difference or standard deviation is unavailable.
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology and Statistics, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Canada.
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authors.lastname: Tritchler
mesh_terms: D001699:Biometry; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016017:Odds Ratio