<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Rrita Zejnullahi</title><link>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/author/rrita-zejnullahi/</link><atom:link href="https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/author/rrita-zejnullahi/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Rrita Zejnullahi</description><generator>Source Themes Academic (https://sourcethemes.com/academic/)</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><image><url>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/images/icon_hu0b7a4cb9992c9ac0e91bd28ffd38dd00_9727_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_2.png</url><title>Rrita Zejnullahi</title><link>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/author/rrita-zejnullahi/</link></image><item><title>Suicide Rates in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Student-Athletes: A 12-Year Longitudinal Analysis</title><link>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/suicide-rates/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/suicide-rates/</guid><description/></item><item><title>How can statisticians support refugees?</title><link>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/refugee-pop/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/refugee-pop/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Mechanisms of exercise-induced reduction in peripheral arterial stiffness</title><link>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/ejap-2025/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/ejap-2025/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Robust variance estimation in small meta-analysis with the standardized mean difference</title><link>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/rva-small-ma-smd/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/rva-small-ma-smd/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Effect sizes in ANCOVA and difference-in-differences designs</title><link>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/effect-sizes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/effect-sizes/</guid><description/></item><item><title>An evaluation of statistical methods for aggregate patterns of replication failure</title><link>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/aggregate_metrics/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:11:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/aggregate_metrics/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Developing teachers' knowledge of content and students for teaching categorical association</title><link>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/teacher_knowledge/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:11:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/publication/teacher_knowledge/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Adjusting for covariates with the standardized mean difference effect size</title><link>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/in_preparation/smd_pretest/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rrita-zejnullahi.netlify.app/in_preparation/smd_pretest/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;strong>Abstract:&lt;/strong> Adjusting for baseline characteristics (e.g., pre-tests) is common practice when evaluating the effects of interventions. While it has been long-known that the use of these adjustments typically leads to an increase in precision of treatment effect estimates in primary analyses of randomized trials, representing the results of such analyses in terms of effect sizes, however, has received little attention. In this article, we provide a framework for defining effect sizes in designs with a pre-test and propose estimators of those effect sizes. The estimators and approximations to their sampling distributions are evaluated using a simulation study and then demonstrated using an example from published data.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>