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arcsin [ˈɑːkˌsaɪn] Maths
abbreviation for
(Mathematics) arcsine: the function the value of which for a given argument between -1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between -π/2 and π/2), the sine of which is that argument: the inverse of the sine function
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Noun1.arcsin - the inverse function of the sine; the angle that has a sine equal to a given number
circular function, trigonometric function - function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle


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Cohen's h, the difference between the arcsin transformations of the two proportions, is provided as a measure of effect size (Rosenthal & Rosnow, 1991).
Significant incidents of embryotoxicity were established following transformation of the percentages to their arcsin values, by Student's t-test when comparing a single treatment to the control or by analysis of variance and Dunnett's t-test when comparing multiple treatments to the control (12).
The proportions of the summary codes were transformed using an arcsin transformation in order to avoid a nonsingular matrix in the multivariate analysis in which one of the six proportions is a linear combination of the other five proportions.
 
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