Meta Analysis: A Guide to Calibrating and Combining Statistical Evidence
Elena Kulinskaya, Stephan Morgenthaler, "Meta Analysis: A Guide to Calibrating and Combining Statistical Evidence"
2008 | ISBN-10: 0470028645 | 282 pages | PDF | 2 MB
2008 | ISBN-10: 0470028645 | 282 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Meta Analysis: A Guide to Calibrating and Combining StatisticalEvidence acts as a source of basic methods for scientistswanting to combine evidence from different experiments. The authorsaim to promote a deeper understanding of the notion of statisticalevidence.
The book is comprised of two parts The Handbook, and The Theory. The Handbook is a guide for combining andinterpreting experimental evidence to solve standard statisticalproblems. This section allows someone with a rudimentary knowledgein general statistics to apply the methods. The Theoryprovides the motivation, theory and results of simulationexperiments to justify the methodology.
This is a coherent introduction to the statistical conceptsrequired to understand the authors thesis that evidence in atest statistic can often be calibrated when transformed to theright scale.