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Advances in Meta-Analysis (Hardcover, 2012)
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Advances in Meta-Analysis (Hardcover, 2012)
Series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
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The subject of the book is advanced statistical analyses for
quantitative research synthesis (meta-analysis), and selected
practical issues relating to research synthesis that are not
covered in detail in the many existing introductory books on
research synthesis (or meta-analysis). Complex statistical issues
are arising more frequently as the primary research that is
summarized in quantitative syntheses itself becomes more complex,
and as researchers who are conducting meta-analyses become more
ambitious in the questions they wish to address. Also as
researchers have gained more experience in conducting research
syntheses, several key issues have persisted and now appear
fundamental to the enterprise of summarizing research. Specifically
the book describes multivariate analyses for several indices
commonly used in meta-analysis (e.g., correlations, effect sizes,
proportions and/or odds ratios), will outline how to do power
analysis for meta-analysis (again for each of the different kinds
of study outcome indices), and examines issues around research
quality and research design and their roles in synthesis. For each
of the statistical topics we will examine the different possible
statistical models (i.e., fixed, random, and mixed models) that
could be adopted by a researcher. In dealing with the issues of
study quality and research design it covers a number of specific
topics that are of broad concern to research synthesists. In many
fields a current issue is how to make sense of results when studies
using several different designs appear in a research literature
(e.g., Morris & Deshon, 1997, 2002). In education and other
social sciences a critical aspect of this issue is how one might
incorporate qualitative (e.g., case study) research within a
synthesis. In medicine, related issues concern whether and how to
summarize observational studies, and whether they should be
combined with randomized controlled trials (or even if they should
be combined at all). For each topic, included is a worked example
(e.g., for the statistical analyses) and/or a detailed description
of a published research synthesis that deals with the practical
(non-statistical) issues covered.
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