Appendix

Comparing two unpaired groups

Table 1: Comparing two unpaired groups (effect size functions from package effectsize, except for wilcoxonR() from rcompanion
Data Test Function Effect size Function
P T-Test t.test(var.equal = TRUE) Cohen’s d cohens_d()
P Welch T-Test t.test(var.equal = FALSE) Cohen’s d cohens_d()
NP Mann–Whitney U wilcox.test(paired = FALSE) Rank-biserial r or Wilcoxon R rank_biserial() or wilcoxonR()
Note: P … Parametric | NP … Non-parametric

Comparing two paired groups

Table 2: Comparing two paired groups (effect size functions from package effectsize, except for wilcoxonR() from rcompanion
Data Test Function Effect size Function
P T-Test t.test(paired = TRUE) Cohen’s d cohens_d()
NP Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test wilcox.test(paired = TRUE) Rank biserial r or Wilcoxon R rank_biserial() or wilcoxonPairedR()
Note: P … Parametric | NP … Non-parametric

Comparing multiple unpaired groups

Table 3: Comparing multiple unpaired groups (effect size functions from package effectsize
Data Test Function Effect size Function
P ANOVA aov()* oneway.test(var.equal = TRUE/FALSE) Epsilon squared eta_squared()
NP Kruskal–Wallis test kruskal.test() Epsilon squared (rank) rank_epsilon_squared()
Note: P … Parametric | NP … Non-parametric | * assumes equal variances