The Statistical Procedure That Accounts for Error Inherent When Sampling

question 27

Multiple Choice

The statistical procedure that accounts for error inherent when sampling data from a population by assigning less weight in a meta-analysis to studies with greater error variance and more heavily weighting those with less error variance is known as the

• A)standard deviation.
• B)regression to the mean.
• C)weighted least squares method.
• D)unweighted strategy.

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