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Handbook of Meta-analysis in Ecology and Evolution

Julia Koricheva, Jessica Gurevitch, and Kerrie Mengersen

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780691137285

Published to Princeton Scholarship Online: October 2017

DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691137285.001.0001

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Statistical Models and Approaches to Inference

Statistical Models and Approaches to Inference

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(p.89) 8 Statistical Models and Approaches to Inference
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Handbook of Meta-analysis in Ecology and Evolution
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Kerrie Mengersen

Christopher H. Schmid

Michael D. Jennions

Jessica Gurevitch

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Princeton University Press
DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691137285.003.0008

This chapter provides an introduction and overview of the three statistical components of the meta-analysis: (1) the statistical model that describes how the study-specific estimates of interest will be combined; (2) the key statistical approaches for meta-analysis; and (3) the corresponding estimates, inferences, and decisions that arise from a meta-analysis. First, it describes common statistical models used in ecological meta-analyses and the relationships between these models, showing how they are all variations of the same general structure. It then discusses the three main approaches to analysis and inference, again with the aim of providing a general understanding of these methods. Finally, it briefly considers a number of statistical considerations which arise in meta-analysis. In order to illustrate the concepts described, the chapter considers the Lepidoptera mating example described in Appendix 8.1. This is a meta-analysis of 25 studies of the association between male mating history and female fecundity in Lepidoptera.

Keywords:   statistical analysis, meta-analysis, statistical models, statistical inference, Lepidoptera mating

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