How to MERGE Environmental Information using Meta-Analysis

• Autorzy: Jarosław Zawadzki
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The article explains how to integrate information originated from different studies in such practical situation. A family of statistical methods that are developed especially for combining of various studies leading the same objectives are referred to as metaanalysis. Metaanalysis is a large family of sophisticated methods that go far beyond the wellknown classical methods based on classical correlation or regression analysis [1]. It is worth to promote these methods for environmental applications due to their simplicity and high efficiency. Due to small length of the article it was not possible to present in it detailed example of using meta-analysis for environmental applications. This will be done during conference presentation. Instead, the article contains carefully selected literature, related to environmental and related studies [2-5, 8-10, 15, 19]. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Research methods; Information analysis; Information; Meta-analysis

PL

Metody badawcze; Analiza informacyjna; Informacja; Metaanaliza

• Czasopismo: Systems Supporting Production Engineering
• Rocznik: 2012
• Numer: 1(1) Review of Problems and Solutions
• Strony: 279--287

Twórcy

autor

Jarosław Zawadzki

• Warsaw University of Technology

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