Recommendations for applying tests of equivalence

dc.contributor.authorCribbie, Robert
dc.contributor.authorGruman, Jamie A.
dc.contributor.authorArpin-Cribbie, Chantal A.
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-05T16:33:13Z
dc.date.available2018-06-05T16:33:13Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.description.abstractResearchers in psychology reliably select traditional null hypothesis significance tests (e.g., Student's t test), regardless of whether the research hypothesis relates to whether the group means are equivalent or whether the group means are different. Tests of equivalence, which have been popular in biopharmaceutical studies for years, have recently been introduced and recommended to researchers in psychology for demonstrating the equivalence of two group means. However, very few recommendations exist for applying tests of equivalence. A Monte Carlo study was used to compare the test of equivalence proposed by Schuirmann with the traditional Student t test for deciding if two group means are equivalent. It was found that Schuirmann's test of equivalence is more effective than Student's t test at detecting population mean equivalence with large sample sizes; however, Schuirmann's test of equivalence performs poorly relative to Student's t test with small sample sizes and/or inflated variances.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council
dc.identifier.citationCribbie, R. A., Gruman, J. & Arpin-Cribbie, C. (2004). Recommendations for applying tests of equivalence. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60, 1-10. doi: 10.1002/jclp.10217
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.10217en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34620
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rights.articlehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jclp.10217
dc.subjectnull hypothesis testingen_US
dc.subjectequivalence testsen_US
dc.subjectvariance heterogeneityen_US
dc.subjectStudent’s ten_US
dc.titleRecommendations for applying tests of equivalence
dc.typeArticleen_US

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