History and development of the Schmidt-Hunter meta-analysis methods

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 232-239

  Schmidt, Frank L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

History of meta analysis; Measurement error; Meta analysis; Sampling error

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HISTORY; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84949755243     PISSN: 17592879     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1134     Document Type: Article

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