13  Reconstruction, resampling, and simulation methods ✎ Outline

13.1 SPRITE

  • Sample Parameter Reconstruction via Iterative Techniques

13.2 CLOSURE and Horn’s metric

  • CLOSURE method
  • Horn’s metric

13.3 Simulation and bootstrapping

  • Simulation/bootstrapping: how likely given values are given a much larger, more trustworthy sample
  • Resampling results from data to examine plausibility
  • Using within-meta meta-analysis of SDs from the same outcome to examine differences between each sample and the meta-SD

13.3.1 Caveats

  • Although this relies on prior data and the current study may have different selection effects or constraints, the other side of this coin is worth considering