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Kulinskaya, Elena; Hoaglin, David C.; Bakbergenuly, Ilyas; Newman, Joseph – Research Synthesis Methods, 2021
The conventional Q statistic, using estimated inverse-variance (IV) weights, underlies a variety of problems in random-effects meta-analysis. In previous work on standardized mean difference and log-odds-ratio, we found superior performance with an estimator of the overall effect whose weights use only group-level sample sizes. The Q statistic…
Descriptors: Q Methodology, Meta Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Distributions