Premium
META‐ANALYSIS: CURRENT ISSUES IN RESEARCH SYNTHESIS
Author(s) -
OLKIN INGRAM
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960630)15:12<1253::aid-sim303>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , computer science , management science , field (mathematics) , data science , emphasis (telecommunications) , current (fluid) , engineering ethics , artificial intelligence , mathematics , economics , telecommunications , pure mathematics , electrical engineering , engineering
Recent concern about the effectiveness of alternative treatments in medicine and health, in education, in psychology, and in the social sciences has led to a consideration of how to combine or synthesize the results of independent studies. Historically, integration of independent results focused on how to combine p ‐values. More recently the emphasis has been on estimating effect sizes, which in turn has motivated a variety of alternative models depending on the experimental conditions. We here review the development of the field with an emphasis of diagnostics and future research.