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=Effect Size= | |||
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Given a t statistic, an effect size, r^2 can be obtained by t^2/t^2+df | |||
=Word Counts= | =Word Counts= | ||
Many journals have strict word count limits, and some of them even have guidelines for manuscript sections. For example, ''J Neurosci'' allows an introduction of only 650 words, and discussion of 1500 words. To track this, an awkward solution is to copy/paste sections of the paper into a new document to get Microsoft Word to report the word count for the pasted text. Kludgy. A more elegant solution is to make use of MS Word's ''section break'' feature to break up the paper into sections, and then using the macro code below to report the word count of each section: | Many journals have strict word count limits, and some of them even have guidelines for manuscript sections. For example, ''J Neurosci'' allows an introduction of only 650 words, and discussion of 1500 words. To track this, an awkward solution is to copy/paste sections of the paper into a new document to get Microsoft Word to report the word count for the pasted text. Kludgy. A more elegant solution is to make use of MS Word's ''section break'' feature to break up the paper into sections, and then using the macro code below to report the word count of each section: | ||
Latest revision as of 21:02, 9 October 2019
Effect Size
Putting this here because it was difficult to find: Given a t statistic, an effect size, r^2 can be obtained by t^2/t^2+df
Word Counts
Many journals have strict word count limits, and some of them even have guidelines for manuscript sections. For example, J Neurosci allows an introduction of only 650 words, and discussion of 1500 words. To track this, an awkward solution is to copy/paste sections of the paper into a new document to get Microsoft Word to report the word count for the pasted text. Kludgy. A more elegant solution is to make use of MS Word's section break feature to break up the paper into sections, and then using the macro code below to report the word count of each section:
Sub SectionWordCount()
'
' SectionWordCount Macro
' Generates a message box with the word count for each section appearing in the document
' (c)2012-18 Chris McNorgan
'
Dim NumSec As Integer
Dim S As Integer
Dim Summary As String
NumSec = ActiveDocument.Sections.Count
Summary = "Word Count" & vbCrLf
For S = 1 To NumSec
Summary = Summary & "Section " & S & ": " _
& ActiveDocument.Sections(S).Range.ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticWords) _
& vbCrLf
Next
Summary = Summary & "Document: " & _
ActiveDocument.Range.ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticWords)
MsgBox Summary
End Sub
Instructions for creating a new macro in MS Word can be found here (go to the section on Writing a macro from scratch in Visual Basic).