Meta-Analysis for Psychologists
Description
- Covers theory, key issues and step-by-step demonstrations
- Includes examples worked examples familiar to psychologists and datasets
- Companion videos demonstrate the methods outlined
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"Meta-analysis is undoubtably the future for anyone that uses data to understand human behaviour. Not only does this book take the reader's understanding of their data to the next level, Richard's writing is as engaging as it is accessible. An important book for any researcher." (Megan Birney, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, UK)
"
Meta-analysis for Psychologists
is a surprisingly readable guide that makes meta-analysis techniques accessible to all psychologists." (Stuart Wilson, Senior Lecturer, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK)
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Richard Cooke is a chartered health psychologist and Professor of Health Psychology in the School of Health, Science and Wellbeing at The University of Staffordshire, UK. Professor Cooke has an international reputation for using meta-analysis to test health psychology theories as predictors of health behaviours. He has authored five meta-analyses that have collectively been cited more than 1300 times and delivered numerous meta-analysis workshops. He has a lifelong love of meta-analysis and wants to encourage others to develop their skills in using this technique.
Content
List of tables.- List of figures.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Chapter 1 Introduction to meta-analysis for psychologists.- Section 1 Introduction to meta-analysis.- Chapter 2 What is a meta-analysis and why should I run one?.- Chapter 3 Identifying your effect size.- Section 2 Preparing to conduct a meta-analysis.- Chapter 4 Systematic review essentials.- Chapter 5 Data extraction for meta-analysis.- Chapter 6 Quality appraisal for meta-analysis.- Chapter 7 Data synthesis for meta-analysis.- Section 3 Conducting meta-analysis in jamovi.- Chapter 8 Using jamovi to conduct meta-analyses.- Chapter 9 How to conduct a meta-analysis of correlations.- Chapter 10 How to conduct a meta-analysis of effect size differences.- Section 4 Further issues in meta-analysis.- Chapter 11 Fixed effect vs. Random effects meta-analysis.- Chapter 12 Moderator (sub-group) analyses.-Chapter 13 Publication bias.- Chapter 14 Further methods for meta-analysis.- Chapter 15 Writing up your meta-analysis.
