How Science Takes Stock : The Story of Meta-Analysis /
He demonstrates how the statistical techniques of meta-analysis produce more accurate data than a standard literature review or the old-fashioned process of tallying up the results of each scientific study as if they were votes in an election. Further, Hunt answers skeptics who claim that dissimilar...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[1997]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making order of scientific chaos
- Settling doubts about psychotherapy
- Clarifying murky issues in education
- "Who shall decide, when doctors disagree?"
- Firming up the shaky social sciences
- Lighting the way for makers of social policy
- Epilogue: the future of meta-analysis.