Wil Vander Lugt, the son of Amanda Adcock and Chad Vander Lugt, was the state's first baby born in 2015. He arrived at 12:48 a.m. at MaineGeneral in Waterville.
1 Meta-regression is a tool used in meta-analysis to examine the impact of moderator variables on study effect size using regression-based techniques. 2  Meta-regression is more effective at this task than are standard regression techniques.
1 Not surprisingly, as with any research technique, meta-analysis has its advantages and disadvantages. 2  An advantage is its objectivity, and yet like any research, ultimately its value depends on making some qualitative-type contextualizations and understandings of the objective data.