Statistical meta-analysis with applications /

"Statistical Meta-Analysis with Applications presents the necessary statistical methodologies that allow readers to tackle the four main stages of meta-analysis: problem formulation, data collection, data evaluation, and data analysis and interpretation. Combining the authors' expertise on...

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Main Author: Hartung, Joachim, Prof. Dr
Other Authors: Knapp, Guido, Sinha, Bimal K., 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2008
Series:Wiley series in probability and statistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Various measures of effect size
  • Combining independent tests
  • Methods of combining effect sizes
  • Inference about a common mean of several univariate normal populations
  • Tests of homogeneity in meta-analysis
  • One-way random effects model
  • Combining controlled trials with normal outcomes
  • Combining controlled trials with discrete outcomes
  • Meta-regression
  • Multivariate meta-analysis
  • Bayesian meta-analysis
  • Publication bias
  • 14. Recovery of inter-block information
  • Combination of polls
  • Vote counting procedures
  • Computational aspects data sets.