There are 2 families of statistical procedures in meta-analysis: fixed-and random-effects
procedures. They were developed for somewhat different inference goals: making
inferences about the effect parameters in the studies that have been observed versus
making inferences about the distribution of effect parameters in a population of studies from
a random sample of studies. The authors evaluate the performance of confidence intervals
and hypothesis tests when each type of statistical procedure is used for each type of …

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