Fixed effects and variance components estimation in three-level meta-analysis

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-76

  Konstantopoulos, Spyros ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

effect sizes; meta analysis; multilevel models; variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 85167505006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.35     Document Type: Article

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