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Table 5 Metric conversion table

From: Predictors of police response time: a scoping review

Input metric(s)

Condition

Conversion

Output metric

Population Means

Population study

\(\frac{\left({\mu }_{post}-{\mu }_{pre}\right)}{{\mu }_{pre}}\)

% Change

Sample Means, sample standard deviations, sample size

Sample study

\(\frac{{\left( {\overline{{\text{X}}}_{post} \, - \,\overline{{\text{X}}}_{pre} } \right)}}{{\left( {\frac{{\left( {N - 1} \right)*SD_{post}^{2} + \left( {N - 1} \right)*SD_{pre}^{2} }}{{\left( {N + 1} \right) + \left( {N - 1} \right)}}} \right)}}\)

Cohen’s D

Z-statistic, sample size

–

\(2* \frac{z}{\sqrt{N}}\)

Cohen’s D

t-statistic

–

\(2* \frac{t}{\sqrt{N-1}}\)

Cohen’s D

Unstandardized B, standard deviations

Standard deviations provided

\(B*\frac{{SD_{{predictor\,variable}} }}{{SD_{{outcome\,variable}} }}\)

Beta

Unstandardized B, Grand mean

Grand mean provided

\(\frac{B}{Mean}\)

B*

Unstandardized B

Logit regression

\({e}^{B}\)

Odds ratio