| Authors | T. D. Stanley |
| Journal | The Journal of Economic Perspectives |
| Year | 2001 |
| DOI | 10.1257/jep.15.3.131 |
| Citations | 958 |
TL;DR
Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical method that combines and analyzes results from many independent scientific studies, providing clearer, more reliable insights and greater statistical power than individual studies, which is crucial for identifying robust findings to guide your personal experiments.
This paper doesn't test a specific intervention or treatment on people. Instead, it serves as a conceptual essay and review that explains, advocates for, and illustrates the methodology of **meta-
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