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Meta-Analysis with Robust Variance Estimation: Expanding the Range of Working Models

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  • Pustejovsky, James E
  • Tipton, Elizabeth

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In prevention science and related fields, large meta-analyses are common, and these analyses often involve dependent effect size estimates. Robust variance estimation (RVE) methods provide a way to include all dependent effect sizes in a single meta-regression model, even when the exact form of the dependence is unknown. RVE uses a working model of the dependence structure, but the two currently available working models are limited to each describing a single type of dependence. Drawing on flexible tools from multilevel and multivariate meta-analysis, this paper describes an expanded range of working models, along with accompanying estimation methods, which offer potential benefits in terms of better capturing the types of data structures that occur in practice and, under some circumstances, improving the efficiency of meta-regression estimates. We describe how the methods can be implemented using existing software (the ‘metafor’ and ‘clubSandwich’ packages for R), illustrate the proposed approach in a meta-analysis of randomized trials on the effects of brief alcohol interventions for adolescents and young adults, and report findings from a simulation study evaluating the performance of the new methods.

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  • Pustejovsky, James E & Tipton, Elizabeth, 2020. "Meta-Analysis with Robust Variance Estimation: Expanding the Range of Working Models," MetaArXiv vyfcj_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:metaar:vyfcj_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/vyfcj_v1
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