Research in Higher Education, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1979), pp. 321-341 (21 pages) The present article describes a statistical synthesis of results from 48 comparative studies of an innovative method of ...

The paper does not attempt to serve as a comprehensive theoretical guide but instead describes one rigorous way of conducting a meta-analysis for diagnostic and prognostic markers.

Meta-analysis is an objective examination of published data from many studies of the same research topic identified through a literature search. Through the use of rigorous statistical methods, it ...

Network meta-analysis allows one to simultaneously estimate relative effectiveness of multiple interventions, and has been described as part of the "next generation tool-kit" for evidence synthesis.

A meta-analysis of the comparative distance education (DE) literature between 1985 and 2002 was conducted. In total, 232 studies containing 688 independent achievement, attitude, and retention ...

Objective To perform a large-scale pairwise and network meta-analysis on the effects of all relevant exercise training modes on resting blood pressure to establish optimal antihypertensive exercise ...

Network meta-analysis allows one to simultaneously estimate relative effectiveness of multiple interventions, and has been described as part of the "next generation tool-kit" for evidence synthesis.