Transforming Odds Ratios Into Correlations for Meta-Analytic Research

American Psychologist

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 254-255

  Bonett, Douglas G ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34548431790     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.62.3.254     Document Type: Article

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