Provides a number of ways in which significance levels may be combined
in a meta-analysis.
It includes a number of datasets taken from the literature.
It also provdes a display and
an informal graphical test due to Schweder and Spjotvol
and the lowest slope line of Benjamini and
Hochberg.
Becker, B J. Combining significance levels. In
Cooper, H and Hedges, L V, editors
A handbook of research synthesis,
chapter 15, pages 215–230.
Russell Sage,
New York, 1994.
Benjamini, Y and Hochberg, Y.
On the adaptive control of the false disovery rate in
multiple testing with independent statistics.
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics,
25: 60–83, 2000.
Rosenthal, R. Combining the results of independent studies.
Psychological Bulletin,
85:185–193, 1978.
Schweder, T and Spjotvoll, E.
Plots of P–values to evaluate many tests simultaneously.
Biometrika, 69:493–502, 1982.
See Also
The issue of meta-analysis of signficance levels is not completely
unconnected with the topic of adjustment for multiple
comparisons as in for example p.adjust