Meta-Analysis and the Exploration of Causal Mediating Processes: A Primer of Examples, Methods, and Issues

Psychological Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-65

  Shadish, William R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

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EID: 0002323898     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.1.1.47     Document Type: Article

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