Methods of Meta-Analysis : Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings

Chapter 1. Integrating research finding across studies -- chapter 2. Study artifacts and their impact on study outcomes -- chapter 3. Meta-analysis of correlations corrected individually for artifacts -- chapter 4. Meta-analysis of correlations using artifact distributions -- chapter 5. Technical questions in meta-analysis of correlations -- chapter 6. Treatment effects : experimental artifacts and their impact -- chapter 7. Meta-analysis methods for d values -- chapter 8. Technical questions in meta-analysis of d values -- chapter 9. General technical issues in meta-analysis -- chapter 10. Cumulation of findings within studies -- chapter 11. Different methods of meta-analysis and related software -- chapter 12. Locating, evaluating, selecting, and coding studies and presentation of meta-analysis results -- chapter 13. Availability bias, source bias, and publication bias in meta-analysis -- chapter 14. Summary of psychometric meta-analysis.

Designed to provide researchers clear and informative insight into techniques of meta-analysis, the Third Edition of Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings is the most comprehensive text on meta-analysis available today. It is the only book that presents a full and usable treatment of the role of study artifacts in distorting study results, as well as methods for correcting results for such biases and errors.