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| Week | Date | Topic | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/10 | Course overview, introduction to meta-analysis & its history, defining a question for meta-analysis | Read: Modules 1 – Intro & meta-analysis overview, 2 – Defining the question, 5 – Effect Sizes, (feedback forms due: 1/16) |
| 2 | 1/17 | Effect sizes & matching them to the question & available data | Read: Module 6 – Statistical Models, Module 7 – Weighting (feedback forms due: 1/23) |
| 3 | 1/24 | Statistical models & weighting, Delta method for variance calculations | Read Module 8 - Heterogeneity & moderators |
| 4 | 1/31 | Exploring heterogeneity & effects of moderators | Read paper (Murphy 2014), find another meta-analysis of interest to discuss with class |
| 5 | 2/7 | paper discussion (Murphy 2014) | work on project idea pitches (present in class 2/14) |
| 6 | 2/14 | pitch project ideas (individual) | group project proposals (present in class 2/21) |
| 7 | 2/21 | group project proposals | finalize search terms |
| 8 | 2/28 | Formal literature search & paper screening, PRISMA approach, Meta-gear demo & work session | work on screening papers from search |
| 9 | 3/7 | Data extraction demo & work session: GraphClick, Plot Digitizer | work on extracting data |
| 10 | 3/14 | no class - Spring Break! | |
| 11 | 3/21 | Quality control and analytic reproducibility | get your prelim dataset ready for analysis |
| 12 | 3/28 | extra work session on extracting data | determine effect size metric(s), covariates for prelim dataset |
| 13 | 4/4 | Calculating effect sizes, fitting meta-analysis models on prelim datasets | finalize analyses |
| 14 | 4/11 | Data visualization | make final figures |
| 15 | 4/18 | Publication bias, final trouble-shooting | finish analyses & make presentation |
| 16 | 4/25 | Group presentations, wrap-up | End of the semester! |