Testing for Homogeneity in Meta-Analysis I. The One-Parameter Case: Standardized Mean Difference

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-212

  Kulinskaya, Elena ^a   Dollinger, Michael B ^b   Bjørkestøl, Kirsten ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cohen's d statistic; Fractional degrees of freedom; Heterogeneity test; Q statistic; Weighted anova; Weighted sum of squares

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHEN D-STATISTIC; FRACTIONAL DEGREE OF FREEDOM; HETEROGENEITY TEST; META-ANALYSIS; Q STATISTICS; SUMS OF SQUARES; WEIGHTED ANOVA; WEIGHTED SUM; WEIGHTED SUM OF SQUARE;

EXPANSION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DECISION ANALYSIS; HOMOGENEITY; META-ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952602450     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01442.x     Document Type: Article

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