Glass GV (1976)

Primary, secondary and meta-analysis of research. Educational Researcher 10: 3-8.
In 1976, in his presidential address to the American Educational Research Association, Gene Glass introduced the term ‘meta-analysis’ to denote statistical synthesis of the results of similar studies.

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