Concept information
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health care quality, access, and evaluation
health services research
measurement, data sources and coding, and research methods
meta-analysis
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applied psychology
industrial and organizational psychology
research methods for industrial and organizational psychology
meta-analysis
Preferred term
diffuse comparisons
Definition
- Techniques used in ∗meta-analysis to compare the amount of heterogeneity in the analyzed studies’ ∗significance levels and ∗effect sizes. The more heterogeneity or “diffuseness,” the harder it is to integrate the studies. [Source: Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology; Diffuse Comparisons]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/diffuse_comparisons
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