The Synthesis of Regression Slopes in Meta-Analysis.

By B. Becker, Meng-Jia Wu. 2007

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Research on methods of meta-analysis (the synthesis of related study results) has dealt with many simple study indices, but less attention has been paid to the issue of summarizing regression slopes. In part this is because of the many complications that arise when real sets of regression models are accumulated. We outline the complexities involved in synthesizing slopes, describe existing methods of analysis and present a multivariate generalized least squares approach to the synthesis of regression slopes.

Subfields: Statistics and Probability

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An Effect Size for Regression Predictors in Meta-Analysis (2012, background): “Becker and Wu (2007) outlined the complexities involved in synthesizing slopes per se and also described methods for synthesizing raw regression slopes. Peterson and Brown (2005) proposed the synthesis of standardized regression coefficients, while others (Greenland, Schlesselman, & Criqui, 1986) ha”
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