Introduction to Meta Analysis
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Meta analysis refers to secondary data analysis where information from individual research articles are synthesised to arrive at a summary estimate. Meta analysis thus refers to several related steps of framing a question or a problem, formulating search strategies, collection of journal articles or primary studies, abstraction of data from the studies, critical appraisal of studies, judging homogeneity of studies, and synthesis of information from them. In this paper, we describe the key processes of how to conduct each of these steps to conduct a meta analysis.
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2014. Introduction to Meta Analysis. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e665v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.665v1Author comment
This paper is a book chapter submitted for a book on research methods to be published next year (2015).
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Arindam Basu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.
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