Multivariate meta-analysis: modelling the heterogeneity mixing apples and oranges; dangerous or delicious?
Year: 2006
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Meta-analysis may be broadly defined as the quantitative review and synthesis of the results of related but independent studies. For the simple case where meta-analysis concerns only one outcome measure in each study, the statistical methods are well established now. However, in many practical situations there are several outcome\nmeasures presented in the individual studies included in a meta- analysis. In that case analyzing each outcome measure separately in a univariate manner is often suboptimal,\nand analyzing all outcome measures jointly using multivariate methods is indicated. For many situations with multivariate outcome, appropriate meta-analytic\nmethods
Author: Lidia R. Arends
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1528782523