main effect

collocation in English

meanings of mainand effect

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk /meɪn/ us /meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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effect
noun
uk /ɪˈfekt/ us /əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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Examples of main effect

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The maineffect as shown in figure 10 is that the larger particles could rise higher (for given initial velocity).
Furthermore, a maineffect of group for sad bias did not reach significance.
We also predicted a maineffect of task : specifically, poorer performance on the blanks task.
Across both probes, word type resulted in a maineffect, with children from all three groups earning higher scores for verbs than nouns.
There was no maineffect of violation type : children did not make more errors for agreement violations than for word order alterations.
In the youngest groups, the largest contribution to detection times comes from the maineffect of violation position.
However, this maineffect of type of offset was modified by an interaction with vowel length.
This maineffect, however, was clarified by an interaction.
Consequently, if the defining contrast is the interaction between seven factors, each maineffect has as its alias the six-factor interaction of the other treatments.
No maineffect of age group was found.
The maineffect of vowel quality missed significance, and the interaction between dominant language and vowel quality was not significant.
There was no maineffect of age and no interaction between age and script knowledge condition.
When examining global attention, there was a significant maineffect for age.
No maineffect of familiarity was evident at any age.
The picking up of extra variance in the maineffect is not seen at 50 % incidence.
These results indicate that the maineffect of task is mainly due to differences in the delayed condition.
The maineffect for language group stems from the fact that the bilinguals were slower overall.
The maineffect and interaction effects coefficients in italics result from adding the original main effect to those of the interaction term coefficients.
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