Evaluating Approaches to Handling Dependent Effect Sizes in Meta-Analyses: A Simulation Study

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Abstract

This study evaluated the averaging method, robust variance estimation (RVE), and three-level meta-analysis (3LM) in handling dependent correlational effect sizes in meta-analyses. Data were simulated with varying levels of number of studies, effect sizes, and sample size. Results revealed that 3LM and RVE produced unbiased estimates of effect sizes.

Authors

• Ting Sun

• Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte