Abstract. The bulk of conceptual and statistical developments as well as applications of meta-analysis have been published in the last 30 years. The methods for meta-analysis continue to be refined and new methods are applied to new types of research ...
Most questions across science call for quantitative answers, ideally, a single best estimate plus information about the precision of that estimate. A confidence interval (CI) expresses both efficiently. Early experimental psychologists sought quantitative ...
Abstract. Meta-analyses are an indispensable research synthesis tool for characterizing bodies of literature and advancing theories. One important open question concerns the inclusion of unpublished data into meta-analyses. Finding such ...