Applied Meta-Analysis for Social Science Research

• Main Author: Card, Noel A. (Author)
• Other Authors: Little, Todd D. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York The Guilford Press 2016
• Series: Methodology in the social sciences
• Subjects: Social sciences > Methodology; Meta-analysis
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 Offering pragmatic guidance for planning and conducting a meta-analytic review, this book is written in an engaging, nontechnical style that makes it ideal for graduate course use or self-study. The author shows how to identify questions that can be answered using meta-analysis, retrieve both published and unpublished studies, create a coding manual, use traditional and unique effect size indices, and write a meta-analytic review. An ongoing example illustrates meta-analytic techniques. In addition to the fundamentals, the book discusses more advanced topics, such as artifact correction, random- and mixed-effects models, structural equation representations, and multivariate procedures. User-friendly features include annotated equations; discussions of alternative approaches; and Practical Matters sections that give advice on topics not often discussed in other books, such as linking meta-analytic results with theory and the utility of meta-analysis software programs.