Facilitating systematic reviews, data extraction and meta-analysis with the metagear package for R

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 323-330

  Lajeunesse, Marc J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data extraction and retrieval; Effect sizes; Meta analysis; MetaWin; Quantitative reviews; Research synthesis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961203784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12472     Document Type: Article

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