Objectives. Widespread use of increasingly complex statistical methods makes it ever more
challenging to adequately assess the results reported and conclusions drawn in meta …

This book introduces the latest meta-analytical methods and discusses their applications in
the field of psychiatry. A comprehensive list of methods used in meta-analysis has been …

The results of research on a specific question differ across studies, some to a small extent
and some to a large extent. Meta-analysis is a way to statistically combine and summarize …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is becoming the guiding principle for clinical treatment
decisions. But evidence remains a loosely defined term. Multiple criteria for evidence criteria …

Meta-analysis is now the method of choice for assimilating research investigating the same
question. This chapter is a nontechnical overview of the process of conducting meta …

Meta-analysis has been applied to a wide range of issues in clinical psychology. The
greatest concentration of efforts has been in the field of treatment outcomes, where …

This paper examines how threats to the validity of meta-analysis have been dealt with by
clinical researchers employing this approach to literature review. Three validity threats were …

Meta-analytic strategies are rapidly becoming the method of choice for researchers engaged
in the review on topics spanning the scope of psychology. Although the assertion has been …

Dealing with meta-analytical studies, there is a variety of ways to collect data and bring them
together in a statistical synthesis (Higgins & Green, 2006). These ways include extraction of …

As meta-analytic methods are being applied to an ever wider variety of research domains, it
is becoming apparent that researchers need more guidance than is currently available to …