Volume : IV, Issue : X, October - 2014

META ANALYSIS: FOR SYNTHESIZING RESEARCH‘S RESULTS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Hakikat

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Over the time, researches are increasing in numbers in different fields of social sciences. Sometimes these researches are overriding each other on a particular topic. It may happen that different researchers came out with different results on same topic or area of research. So it is not an intelligent approach to increase the number of studies without reaching to a proper conclusion. The researchers can overcome this problem by using a new tool of research “Meta Analysis”. Meta analysis is a combined quantitative result of previous studies related to a particular topic. So Meta Analysis is a quantitative approach of literature review of previous studies. Narrative review of previous studies may create researcher’s bias. By using Meta Analysis, summarized and unbiased result from previous studies can be calculated. Thus Meta Analysis is a technique to give ief quantitative result from available empirical literature in place of adding one more study in this literature. In this paper, Meta Analysis process and different steps are discussed. Different techniques and software available for Meta Analysis are also discussed.

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HAKIKAT Meta Analysis: For Synthesizing Research�s Results In Social Sciences Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue : 10 October 2014

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