Meta-analysis: recent developments in quantitative methods for literature reviews.
@article{Rosenthal2001MetaanalysisRD, title={Meta-analysis: recent developments in quantitative methods for literature reviews.}, author={Robert Rosenthal and Maryanne R. Dimatteo}, journal={Annual review of psychology}, year={2001}, volume={52}, pages={ 59-82 } }
We describe the history and current status of the meta-analytic enterprise. The advantages and historical criticisms of meta-analysis are described, as are the basic steps in a meta-analysis and the role of effect sizes as chief coins of the meta-analytic realm. Advantages of the meta-analytic procedures include seeing the "landscape" of a research domain, keeping statistical significance in perspective, minimizing wasted data, becoming intimate with the data summarized, asking focused research…
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