Overview of Meta-Analysis, Part 5c (of 7): Primary Meta-Analyses (cont.)

This is the last of three posts in Part 5 of my overview of meta-analysis.  In Part 5a I described six conventional meta-analytic models for effect-size (ES) estimates, and in Part 5b I described estimation and inference for two of those models without covariates.  In this post I’ll extend the methods of Part 5b to two models with covariates and comment on extensions and other variants of these models and procedures, to hint at the wide variety of situations that arise in meta-analysis.  In Parts 6 and 7 of the overview, I’ll address follow-up procedures and ways to report results, respectively.
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