Advantages of Excluding Underpowered Studies in Meta-Analysis: Inclusionist Versus Exclusionist Viewpoints

Psychological Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-31

  Kraemer, Helena Chmura ^b   Gardner, Christopher ^c   Brooks III, John O ^c   Yesavage, Jerome A ^a  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University ^*

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EID: 0032364935     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.3.1.23     Document Type: Article

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