quantitative data analysis
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis

statistics, research methods, and measurement
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis

health sciences
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis

statistics and research methods
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis

common metrics
type: Concept
broader: meta-analysis

measurement, data sources and coding, and research methods
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis

social psychology research
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis

research methods for industrial and organizational psychology
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis

data reconstruction
type: Concept
broader: meta-analysis

effect size
type: Concept
broader: meta-analysis

methodology
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis

diffuse comparisons
type: Concept
broader: meta-analysis

methods
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: meta-analysis

meta-analysis
broader: statistics, research methods, and measurement
broader: methodology
broader: statistics and research methods
broader: methods
broader: quantitative data analysis
broader: measurement, data sources and coding, and research methods
broader: research practice and methodology
broader: health sciences
broader: research methods for industrial and organizational psychology
broader: systematic reviews
broader: social psychology research
definition: Meta-analysis is a statistical method that integrates the results of several independent studies considered to be “combinable.” It has become one of the major tools to integrate research findings in social and medical sciences in general and in education and psychology in particular. Although the history of meta-analytic procedures goes all the way back to the early 1900s and the work of Karl Pearson and others, who devised statistical tools to compare studies from different samples, Gene V. Glass coined the term in 1976. [Source: Encyclopedia of Research Design; Meta-Analysis]
narrower: box-score method
narrower: common metrics
narrower: funnel plot
narrower: effect size
narrower: diffuse comparisons
narrower: data reconstruction
type: Concept

funnel plot
type: Concept
broader: meta-analysis

box-score method
type: Concept
broader: meta-analysis

systematic reviews
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis

methods
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis

research practice and methodology
type: Concept
narrower: meta-analysis