Significance Test in Meta-analysis Approach: A theoretical Review

Habib Ahmed Elsayir

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Significance Test in Meta-analysis Approach: A theoretical Review

Habib Ahmed Elsayir

Published in American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics (Volume 4, Issue 6)

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Abstract

Meta-analysis, a statistical procedure that integrates the results of several independent studies, plays a central role in statistical research, and a very important task in research problems and statistical significance tests. This paper discusses these principles, along with the practical steps in performing meta-analysis. It describes the issue of meta-analysis, explains what meta-analysis is, how it is done and how it can be interpreted. Some related problems such as statistical significance, effect size and power analysis are described. Examples of implementation on theoretical data would be carried. Results, conclusions, recommendations on the use of meta-analysis would be summarized.

Published in	American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics (Volume 4, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajtas.20150406.35
Page(s)	630-639
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Effect Size, Meta-analysis, Sample Size, Sensitivity Analysis, Significance Test, Systematic Review

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