Integrating Results Through Meta-analytic Review Using SAS Software

Finally...a book addressing the various needs, concepts, and approaches forSAS users who work with meta-analytic procedures! Wang and Bushman introduce the reader to the important concepts in meta-analysis and how to use SAS software for this specific type of analysis. The authors thoroughly describe how meta-analysis can be used in data mining projects to discover meaningful relations among variables in a collection of studies. In addition, the following concepts are covered in detail: how to present your results in graphical format, how to combine effect-size estimates based on categorical and continuous data, how to use vote-counting procedures to show the statistical significance of results, how to combine effect-size estimates and vote counts, how to deal with fixed- and random-effects models, how to combine dependent or correlated effect-size estimates using multivariate procedures, and how to report the results and conduct the data analysis portion of a meta-analysis.

Formats tell the SAS System the data's type (that is, character or numeric) and its
form (for example, leading zeros, decimal and comma punctuation). The
FORMAT procedure creates two kinds of formats: value and picture formats.
Because ...