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Supplementing or Replacing p

How Effect Size (Practical Significance) Misleads Clinical Practice: The Case for Switching to Practical Benefit to Assess Applied Research Findings

Pages 223-234 | Received 16 Feb 2018, Accepted 12 Nov 2018, Published online: 20 Mar 2019

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