Issues in calculating average effect sizes in meta-analyses, Rebecca Maynard, Nianbo Dong, and Irma Perez-Johnson, University of Pennsylvania

Publication Date: March 5, 2007

Current as of: April 29, 2019

This session focused on the rationale for calculating average effect sizes, described which measures should be averaged, and discussed ways to create a meaningful average.

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