Advances in Meta-Analysis

• Main Author: Pigott, Terri D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Statistics, general.

Meta-analysis is used increasingly in the social sciences to synthesize research results.  As both primary research and the questions addressed by meta-analysis have been grown more complex, meta-analysis techniques have evolved to address these issues.  This book covers a number of advances in meta...

Table of Contents:

• Rationale and overview of the book
• Complexities of primary research and meta-analysis
• Fixed, random, and mixed models
• Correlations
• Effect sizes
• Proportion/odds ratio data
• Dependence in primary research and meta-analysis
• Correlations
•  Effect sizes (group comparisons and change measures)
• Proportion/odds ratio data
• Bayesian approaches
• Missing data
•  Combining across designs
• Qualitative studies in synthesis
• Quality assessments
• Studies on quality weighting
• Summary/Conclusions.