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Caspar J. Van Lissa; Eli-Boaz Clapper; Rebecca Kuiper – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
The product Bayes factor (PBF) synthesizes evidence for an informative hypothesis across heterogeneous replication studies. It can be used when fixed- or random effects meta-analysis fall short. For example, when effect sizes are incomparable and cannot be pooled, or when studies diverge significantly in the populations, study designs, and…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Evaluation Methods, Replication (Evaluation), Sample Size
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Stewart, G. B.; Mengersen, K.; Meader, N. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2014
Bayesian networks (BNs) are tools for representing expert knowledge or evidence. They are especially useful for synthesising evidence or belief concerning a complex intervention, assessing the sensitivity of outcomes to different situations or contextual frameworks and framing decision problems that involve alternative types of intervention.…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Networks, Cognitive Mapping, Data Collection