What is meta-analysis? Here I will try to go into and explain what it is, here I go ……
“Meta-analysis is the statistical procedure for combining data from multiple studies. When the treatment effect (or effect size) is consistent from one study to the next, meta-analysis can be used to identify this common effect. When the effect varies from one study to the next, meta-analysis may be used to determine the reason for the variation.” (MetaAnalysis.Php)
What is it? (Short description of how it works)
So this is a different type of analysis, this takes all the information from various studies and pools it together into one output. The output is answers combined for an average statistical answer.
What kinds of questions/problems might it be useful for?
I believe this could be helpful for saying the housing crisis Government based study IE; population and household usage. In this they can take some people in a house and get an average of that, they could also look into how much power and water an average house consumes and then average it down to each person. And then from then make a solution based off what each person needs instead of e.g. turning off water to a particular place.
How could it be used in IT research (try to think of an example)?
I personally believe that this could be used to gather and then further gain more knowledge of how people use technology to learn more things we could use there for more to create and make money off.
What are the strengths of the approach?
This gives an excellent over un-bais knowledge of the field you’re looking at. This pools a lot of information into one study so there is no way there could be a bias opinion.
What are the weaknesses of the approach?
This doesn’t allow for a one of difference, for example, if there was a need to go and do something different for one particular group that is part of the Analysis, Say if there was one team that needed something completely different but it was a Meta-Analyst
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