Correcting bias in the meta-analysis of correlations.
Psychol Methods
; 2024 Jun 03.
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We demonstrate that all conventional meta-analyses of correlation coefficients are biased, explain why, and offer solutions. Because the standard errors of the correlation coefficients depend on the size of the coefficient, inverse-variance weighted averages will be biased even under ideal meta-analytical conditions (i.e., absence of publication bias, p-hacking, or other biases). Transformation to Fisher's z often greatly reduces these biases but still does not mitigate them entirely. Although all are small-sample biases (n < 200), they will often have practical consequences in psychology where the typical sample size of correlational studies is 86. We offer two solutions the well-known Fisher's z-transformation and new small-sample adjustment of Fisher's that renders any remaining bias scientifically trivial. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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