Dear all,

I am trying to run a meta analysis of psycholinguistic reaction-time 
experiments with the meta package. The problem is that most of the studies have 
a within-subject designs and use repeated measures ANOVAs to analyze their 
data. So at present it seems that there are three non-optimal ways to run the 
analysis. 

1. Using metacont() to estimate effect sizes and standard errors. But as the 
different sores are dependent this would result in biased estimators (Dunlap, 
1996). Suppose I had the correlations of the measures (which I do not) would 
there by an option to use them in metacont() ?

2. Use metagen() with an effect size that is based on the reported F for the 
contrasts but has other disadvantages (Bakeman, 2005). The problem I am having 
with this is that I could not find a formular to compute the standard error of 
partial eta squared. Any Ideas?

3. Use metagen() with r computed from p-values (Rosenthal, 1994) as effect size 
with the problem that sample-size affects p as much as effect size. 

Is there a fourth way, or data showing that correlations can be neglected as 
long as they are assumed to be similar in the studies? 
Any ideas are much apprecciated. 

best regards
Gerrit

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Gerrit Hirschfeld, Dipl.-Psych.

Psychologisches Institut II
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
Fliednerstr. 21
48149 Münster
Germany

psycholinguistics.uni-muenster.de
GerritHirschfeld.de
Fon.: +49 (0) 251 83-31378
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