Finding your way out of the forest without a trail of bread crumbs: Development and evaluation of two novel displays of forest plots

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 74-86

  Schild, Anne H E ^a,b   Voracek, Martin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Meta analysis; Rainforest plot; Research synthesis; Statistical cognition experiment; Thick forest plot

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84938677443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1125     Document Type: Article

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