Research Synthesis in Software Engineering: A Case for Meta-Analysis

Authors:
Will Hayes
Affiliations:
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Venue:
METRICS '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Year:
1999

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Abstract

The use of meta-analytic techniques to summarize empirical software engineering research results is illustrated using a set of 5 published experiments from the literature. The intent of the analysis is to guide future work in this area through objective summarization of the literature to date. A focus on effect magnitude, in addition to statistical significance is championed, and the reader is provided with an illustration of simple methods for computing effect magnitudes.