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== Guidelines ==
== Guidelines ==
* organize information on the topic into subsections. for each subsection, include a brief description / overview, with links to articles that provide details
We do not know in advance the effect of our policy. We want to design a precise way of measuring it.
But precision is not cheap: need cost-benefit analysis to decide.
We need to identify the smallest program effect size that it would be useful to detect
* i.e. the smallest effect for which we would be able to say with statistical confidence that the program effect is statistically different from zero.
 
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We do not know in advance the effect of our policy. We want to design a precise way of measuring it. But precision is not cheap: need cost-benefit analysis to decide. We need to identify the smallest program effect size that it would be useful to detect

  • i.e. the smallest effect for which we would be able to say with statistical confidence that the program effect is statistically different from zero.

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