Overview of Meta-Analysis, Part 2 (of 7): Sampling Error

In Part 1 of this seven-part overview of meta-analysis, I introduced Conn, Hafdahl, Cooper, Brown, and Lusk’s (2009) quantitative review of workplace exercise interventions and discussed extracting effect-size (ES) estimates.  Building on that material, in this second part I’ll address obtaining info about an ES’s sampling error, which plays a critical role in most modern meta-analytic methods.  (Part 1 of this overview lists topics in the subsequent five posts.)
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