Fixed effects and variance components estimation in three-level meta-analysis
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Fixed effects and variance components estimation in three-level meta-analysis.
Meta-analytic methods have been widely applied to education, medicine, and the social sciences. Much of meta-analytic data are hierarchically structured because effect size estimates are nested within studies, and in turn, studies can be nested within level-3 units such as laboratories or investigators, and so forth. Thus, multilevel models are a natural framework for analyzing meta-analytic da...
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عنوان ژورنال: Research Synthesis Methods
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1759-2879
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.35