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Personalized Learning: A Meta-Analysis
… existent literature. Using qualitative content analysis methods, dissertations from the past ten years were selected, narrowed down, and analyzed using NVivo 12. The findings will prompt a further understanding of personalized learning and give school systems a place to start when attempting an …
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Meta-analysis in cancer epidemiology
A published meta-analysis on breast cancer and vegetables and fruit consumption was described to present a methodology used on meta-analysis in Epidemiology. Meta-analysis confirmed the association between intake of vegetables (RR=0.74; 95%CI 0.65-0.84) and, to a lesser extent, fruit and breast …
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The relationship between behavioral intention, self-efficacy and health behavior : a meta-analysis of meta-analysis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Communication, 2010
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Statistical methods for multivariate meta-analysis
… of the drawbacks of using separate univariate meta-analyses to solve a clearly multivariate problem. This has led to increased attention to multivariate meta-analysis, which is a generalization of standard univariate meta-analysis to synthesize evidence on multiple outcomes or treatments. …
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Meta-analysis of Tokamak reactor designs
… reactor designs. This study performs the first meta-analysis of tokamak reactor designs in an attempt to unveil new understanding not available in the traditional bottom-up method of looking at each design individually. Forty tokamak designs intended to produce significant fusion power at gains …
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Meta-Analysis on Costing Out Nursing Services
This descriptive meta-analytic study investigated 73 primary studies on costing out nursing services. A critical review of the literature revealed that findings from the various published and unpublished studies were inconsistent and inconclusive. This meta-analysis integrated the literature to …
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Some statistical problems in sequential meta-analysis
The objective of meta-analysis is to combine results from several independent studies in order to make evidence more generalisable and provide evidence base for decision making. However, recent studies show that the magnitude of effect size estimates reported in many areas of research have …
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Restorative Justice and Recidivism: A Meta-Analysis
… recidivism rates. Is that true? I conducted a meta-analysis on 24 published studies to evaluate the claims for effectiveness and to discover what aspects of restorative justice programs are most effective in reducing recidivism, as well as what offender characteristics make for the best …
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Traffic Safety Meta-Analysis of Reversible Lanes
In this study, a meta-analysis was performed to review the potential effects of reversible lanes on traffic safety. After a systematic literature review, ten U.S studies were selected for inclusion in the analysis. These studies employed either a simple before-after comparison or a cross-sectional …
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Meta-analysis of Student Assistance program Outcomes
The main purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis with data collected from seven schools in Southwest Virginia school district. Data was collected for students who were referred to the Student Assistance Programs at each school. Tracking forms were used to record data for each student. …
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The placenta and cardiovascular disease: A meta-analysis
… conducted a systematic literature search and meta-analysis of published data examining the effects of the placenta on cardiovascular outcomes across the life course. A systematic search was carried out and results were collated and assessed, with records which met the selection criteria then …
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A Meta-Analysis of Test-Retest Reliability Studies
… used in test-retest reliability studies. This meta-analysis consists of 172 test-retest reliability studies. We hypothesized that the length of the intertest interval would be negatively associated with the test-retest reliability coefficient. The results of the study show that a median …
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Simple Strategies for Variance Uncertainty in Meta-Analysis
… entails that the resulting significance of the analysis is correctly stated and that confidence intervals have correct coverage probabilities. Stating an incorrect precision, on the contrary, can often result in biased and misleading results. In particular, in fixed-effects meta-analysis the …
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An Applied Bayesian Approach to Network Meta-Analysis
<p>Network meta-analysis has been introduced as an extension of pairwise meta-analysis to facilitate indirect comparisons of multiple interventions that have not been studied in a head-to-head fashion. The use of network meta-analysis is becoming increasingly popular in biomedical sciences, …
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Simple strategies for variance uncertainty in meta-analysis
… entails that the resulting significance of the analysis is correctly stated and that confidence intervals have correct coverage probabilities. Stating an incorrect precision, on the contrary, can often result in biased and misleading results. In particular, in fixed-effects meta-analysis the …
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Culturally Adapted Mental Health Treatments: A Meta-Analysis
… large and unwieldy. The present study used meta-analytic methodology to gather and organize quantitative data obtained from such studies. Across 80 studies that met criteria to be included in this meta-analysis, the resulting random effects weighted average effect size was d = .44, …
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A Meta-Analysis of Self-Instructional Training Research
Many handicapped children receive part or all of their education in special education classrooms. The purpose of special education programs is to provide children with the skills necessary to function in the regular classroom so that they may return on a fulltime basis. Consequently, it is critical …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Courtship Violence: A Meta-Analysis
… family of origin violence and dating violence. A meta-analytic approach was used to conduct a quantitative review of the relevant research literature. The results are based on data from 35 studies of dating violence. The gender of respondents, whether family of origin violence was witnessed or …
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