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Hedges’ Approach. Two main camps in MA. Schmidt & Hunter Hedges et al. Hedges & Olkin Hedges & Vevea Differ in Weights and Data Transformation Others – HLM, Rosenthal, Bayesian, not as common. Weights Defined. SH use N, NA 2 for weights Hedges uses inverse variance weights.
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Two main camps in MA • Schmidt & Hunter • Hedges et al. • Hedges & Olkin • Hedges & Vevea • Differ in Weights and Data Transformation • Others – HLM, Rosenthal, Bayesian, not as common
Weights Defined • SH use N, NA2 for weights • Hedges uses inverse variance weights. • Sampling variances and inverses:
Data Transformation r .10 .20 .30 .40 .50 .60 .70 .80 .90 z .10 .20 .31 .42 .55 .69 .87 1.10 1.47
Confidence Interval Because w=N-3, this basically means that the confidence interval is the mean plus or minus 2 times the root of 1/(Total N).
Homogeneity Test When the null (homogeneous rho) is true, Q is distributed as chi-square with (k-1) df, where k is the number of studies. This is a test of whether Random Effects Variance Component is zero.
Estimating the REVC If REVC estimate is less than zero, set to zero. REVC is SH Var(rho), but in the metric of z, not r. Method due to DerSimonian & Laird
Random-Effects Weights Inverse variance weights give weight to each study depending on the uncertainty for the true value of that study. For fixed-effects, there is only sampling error. For random-effects, there is also uncertainty about where in the distribution the study came from, so 2 sources of error. The InV weight is, therefore:
Numerical Illustration (3) Fixed-effects mean and CI: Retranslate to r: But, generally best to use RE, even if Q is n.s.
Numerical Illustration (5) Comparison of Results