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Summarizing Effect
Based on marginal
distributions
•Difference / ratio of
means (arithmetic, geometric, …)
•Difference / ratio of
proportion exceeding some threshold
•Difference / ratio of
medians (or other quantiles)
•Ratio of odds of
exceeding some threshold
•Ratio of hazard
(averaged across time?)
•…
Based on joint
distribution
•Median difference /
ratio of paired observations
•Probability that a
randomly chosen measurement from one population might exceed
that from the other
•…