This paper investigates how inconsistency (as measured by the I2 statistic) among studies in a meta-analysis may differ, according to the type of outcome data and effect measure. We used hierarchical models to analyse data from 3873 binary, 5132 continuous and 880 mixed outcome meta-analyses within the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Predictive distributions for inconsistency expected ...

BACKGROUND Qualitative synthesis has become more commonplace in recent years. Meta-ethnography is one of several methods for synthesising qualitative research and is being used increasingly within health care research. However, many aspects of the steps in the process remain ill-defined. DISCUSSION We utilized the seven stages of the synthesis process to synthesise qualitative research on adh...

Multivariate meta-analysis allows the joint synthesis of effect estimates based on multiple outcomes from multiple studies, accounting for the potential correlations among them. However, standard methods for multivariate meta-analysis for multiple outcomes are restricted to problems where the within-study correlation is known or where individual participant data are available. This paper propos...

Teachers’ Experiences in Flipped Classroom South-East Asian Countries: A Meta-Synthesis. Objective: This study aimed to meta-synthesize the teachers’ experiences utilizing flipped classrooms across countries. Methods: Fifteen (15) out of 1,118 studies were included from various accessible academic databases Publish or Perish software which was scrutinized using a set inclusion and exclusion cri...

[Note: The presentation in this publication is oriented toward the synthesis properties per se of SPRUCE in view of the general theme of the conference. However, the main objective of the overall SPRUCE project was and remains the building of a computational model of human speech production. This objective should not be confused with what we perceive to be the ‘simpler’ task of engineering a de...

It is necessary to consider community opinions about social events and respond with proper actions. Support is needed to acquire a basic or rough idea of community opinions quickly. In this paper, the authors show how to elicit main points from community opinions with a simple word association test on college students about the highlighted social events in China in 2010. Two supporting technolo...

This paper presents an account of the impact that research synthesis methods, in the form of psychometric meta-analysis, has had on industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology. This paper outlines the central contributions of psychometric meta-analysis in providing a method for developing cumulative knowledge. First, this paper describes the concerns and the state of the field before the develop...