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Table 2 Post-test effect sizes used to identify associations with substantive significance

From: Mid-upper-arm circumference based case-detection, admission, and discharging of under five children in a large-scale community-based management of acute malnutrition program in Nigeria

Factor

Outcome

Test

Effect size

Standarda

Categorical

Categorical

Chi-square

Risk ratio (RR) ≠ 1

Risk difference (RD)

|RD| > 5%

Categorical

Continuous

Kruskal-Wallis H

Cohen’s db

|d| > 0.20

Continuous

Continuous

Wald type test for β coefficient = 0

Pearson’s |rc| > 0.10

|rc| > 0.10

  1. aStandards were applied post-test (i.e. only for associations with p < 0.05)
  2. bDifference between means divided by the pooled standard deviation [30]
  3. cPearson product moment correlation coefficient
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