* This book combines the authors" experiences on the topic and brings out a wealth of new information relevant to the study of meta-analysis. * Most of the methods described in this book can be understood and applied with a solid master"s level background in statistics. * Applications ranging from business to education to environment to health sciences in both univariate and multivariate cases are presented alongside and subservient to theory. * The treatment of the common mean of univariate normal populations, tests of homogeneity, one-way random effects model, categorical data, recovery of inter-block information, and combination of polls is entirely new. * A special feature includes the incorporation of detailed discussions on the computational aspects and related software to carry out statistical meta-analysis in practice. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Statistical Meta-Analysis with Applications (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) (Joachim Hartung, Guido Knapp, Bimal K. Sinha)