Statistical issues in ecological meta-analyses

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1142-1149

  Gurevitch, Jessica ^a   Hedges, Larry V ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Data synthesis; Ecological data, meta analysis; Effect size; Heteroscedasticity; Meta analysis; Mixed model analysis; Randomization tests in meta analysis; Resampling tests; Statistical techniques for data synthesis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033040602     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1142:SIIEMA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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