Meta-Analysis in Social Research

by Michael G. Maxfield and Wesley G. Skogan

How is a social scientist to cope with the cornucopia of already existing studies in his or her area? How to draw useable conclusions from a body of work that might run to 5000 items? Traditional narrative integration fails to usefully portray such accumulated knowledge. Meta-analysis is an approach that systematically analyzes and synthesizes research. This book is its first full explanation. Meta-analysis treats a field of research as a complex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803916337
• ISBN13: 9780803916333
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.