The course will be open to national and international PhD students and Faculty members, in need to improve their analytic skills in the area of meta-analysis. It will be organized in two sections:
- half-day preparatory statistical course to give the basic understanding on the statistical packages R and Jamovi, and on the required basic statistics to attend effectively the second section;
- 2-day and half-day course on Meta-analysis.
Lecturer: Prof. Massimiliano Pastore, University of Padua, Italy
Teaching and tutoring staff:
dr. Elisa Menardo and dr. Margherita Brondino, University of Verona, Italy
The program of the course is as follows:
| Morning 9.00 – 13.00 Theoretical lessons | Afternoon 14.00 – 18.00 Exercises | |
| Monday 12 | ||
| – An introduction on Meta-analysis nad the issue of the results replicability – Build replicabile studies: the design analysis | – Introduction to R and Jamovi | |
| Tuesday 13 | ||
| – Measures of effect size – Estimate of the effects and interpretation of results | – Exercises in R and Jamovi | |
| Wednesday 14 | – The package metafor – Meta-regression and publication-bias – graphical rappresentations | – Exercises in R and Jamovi – Discussion e conclusion on the exercises |
Note. The program could be slightly changed during the course to address needs by participants