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. 2013 Jun;45(2):576-94.
doi: 10.3758/s13428-012-0261-6.

Three-level meta-analysis of dependent effect sizes

Wim Van den Noortgate  1 , José Antonio López-López, Fulgencio Marín-Martínez, Julio Sánchez-Meca
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Three-level meta-analysis of dependent effect sizes

Wim Van den Noortgate et al. Behav Res Methods. 2013 Jun.

Abstract

Although dependence in effect sizes is ubiquitous, commonly used meta-analytic methods assume independent effect sizes. We describe and illustrate three-level extensions of a mixed effects meta-analytic model that accounts for various sources of dependence within and across studies, because multilevel extensions of meta-analytic models still are not well known. We also present a three-level model for the common case where, within studies, multiple effect sizes are calculated using the same sample. Whereas this approach is relatively simple and does not require imputing values for the unknown sampling covariances, it has hardly been used, and its performance has not been empirically investigated. Therefore, we set up a simulation study, showing that also in this situation, a three-level approach yields valid results: Estimates of the treatment effects and the corresponding standard errors are unbiased.

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