New LearnSTAT Courses for Fall 2008: Introduction to Meta-Analysis

摘要

This course offers an overview of all phases of a meta-analysis, including the goals, computational issues, and interpretation. We will discuss various computational models (fixed effect, random effects, mixed models), explain the conceptual differences among these models, and then show how this translates into different computational formulas. We also will work through examples using several computer programs. Finally, we will discuss some of the controversy surrounding meta-analysis, with many journals treating meta-analysis as the highest standard of evidence and others seeing it as problematic.