Meta-analysis in Quatitative

Research
Cristina D. Acuar
Meta-analysis
 Meta-analysis
• Meta-analysis is a kind of review of related
literature in which you re-examine and
combine the results of two or more statistical
studies for coming out with a grand total to
indicate stronger effects of the research
outcome.
• Putting the results together and making them
appearr as one result work to strenghten
whatever impact the idependent variable has
on the dependent variable.
 Meta-analysis
• meta-analysis helps in guaranteeing the precision of
the measuring method used in a qualitative research
studies.
• However, this merging of statistical results is not
applicable to all quantitative research studies.
• You resort to meta-analysis only if the statistics that
you intend to combine come from studies having
several similarities like they are comparable in
terms of research queations,research design,
 Meta-analysis
• meta-analysis helps in guaranteeing the precision of
the measuring method used in a qualitative research
studies.
• However, this merging of statistical results is not
applicable to all quantitative research studies.
• You resort to meta-analysis only if the statistics that
you intend to combine come from studies having
several similarities like they are comparable in
terms of research queations,research design,