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| Title |
Teaching meta-analysis using MetaLight
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| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1756-0500-5-571 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
James Thomas, Sergio Graziosi, Steve Higgins, Robert Coe, Carole Torgerson, Mark Newman |
| Abstract |
Meta-analysis is a statistical method for combining the results of primary studies. It is often used in systematic reviews and is increasingly a method and topic that appears in student dissertations. MetaLight is a freely available software application that runs simple meta-analyses and contains specific functionality to facilitate the teaching and learning of meta-analysis. While there are many courses and resources for meta-analysis available and numerous software applications to run meta-analyses, there are few pieces of software which are aimed specifically at helping those teaching and learning meta-analysis. Valuable teaching time can be spent learning the mechanics of a new software application, rather than on the principles and practices of meta-analysis. We discuss ways in which the MetaLight tool can be used to present some of the main issues involved in undertaking and interpreting a meta-analysis. While there are many software tools available for conducting meta-analysis, in the context of a teaching programme such software can require expenditure both in terms of money and in terms of the time it takes to learn how to use it. MetaLight was developed specifically as a tool to facilitate the teaching and learning of meta-analysis and we have presented here some of the ways it might be used in a training situation. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Scientists | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 27 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Hungary | 1 | 4% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 4% |
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 22 | 81% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 30% |
| Researcher | 7 | 26% |
| Professor | 6 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 7% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 2 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 5 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 11% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 26% |
| Unknown | 3 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 July 2015.
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#6,755,380
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#1,059
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#50,488
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#23
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