Bias and correction for the log response ratio in ecological meta-analysis

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2056-2063

  Lajeunesse, Marc J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Delta method; Effect size estimator; Large sample approximation; Linearity of expectation; Log ratio; Meta analysis; Research synthesis; Small sample bias

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CORRECTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LINEARITY; META-ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK; SAMPLING; SAMPLING BIAS;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MONTE CARLO METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 84939237456     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 19399170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-2402.1     Document Type: Article

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