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Meta-Analysis
Quantitative Methods for Research Synthesis



April 1986 | 72 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Meta-Analysis shows concisely, yet comprehensively, how to apply statistical methods to achieve a literature review of a common research domain. It demonstrates the use of combined tests and measures of effect size to synthesize quantitatively the results of independent studies for both group differences and correlations. Strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches, as well as of meta-analysis in general, are presented.
 
Meta-Analysis and Synthesizing Research
 
Combined Tests
 
Measures of Effect Size
 
Examining and Reducing Bias
 
Nonparametric Methods
 
Summary and Conclusions

Fredric M. Wolf

Dr. Wolf has over 20 years educational psychology/evaluation and measurement, medical education, and health services research. He is the Chair of the Department of Medical Education and Biomedical and Health Informatics, member NIH study sections, member international Cochrane Collaboration, former Visiting Scholar at UK Cochrane Centre and Green College, University of Oxford. More About Author

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ISBN: 9780803927568
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