… on statistical indices of what Strahan calls effect strength. (We prefer the terminology effect
size to effect strength, since it is effects that have size; treatments possess varying degrees of …

… -meaningful measures of treatment effect can be estimated in observational studies. In particular,
we demonstrate how all the measures of effect … reported measures of treatment effect in …

… the outcome measures. Interventions give rise to latent intervention effect variables that can
alter the latent primary variables or independently affect the outcome measures. The latent …

… This study also was unable to estimate a small meaningful effect for the SPPB, because
its integer-valued scoring precludes individual measurement of 0.5 points. Also, SPPB was …

… meaningful effect … measurement of meaningful clinical effects pose a multifaceted challenge,
in that many stakeholders in our healthcare system would define “clinically meaningful effect…

… global assessment of the medication effect, and requirement for an … effect we hope to achieve
with treatment (ranging from amelioration of symptoms to cure) 3. The potential side effects …

… of measurement (Seal P, Glickman M, Eisen SV. The Relationship between SEM, effect
size and RCI when classifying clinically meaningful change. Manuscript in preparation; 2006). …

… measurement process namely the outcome scores include factors that are irrelevant to the
measured entity and reflect temporary effects… effect on the scores of outcome measures. The …

… .19, 41 Although the 2 trials evaluated similar measures, they were not consistently defined.
Despite these differences, we believe that evaluating the effect size of different therapies is …

… examined the reliability, validity, and practicality of functionally meaningful measures. … -based
measures. None of the measures had notable floor or ceiling effects or missing data. …