Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 An overview of data mining: The applications, the methodology, the algorithms, and the data -- 1.1 The applications -- 1.2 The methodology -- 1.3 The algorithms -- 1.3.1 Supervised models -- 1.3.1.1...

Meta-regression models are increasingly utilized to integrate empirical results across studies while controlling for the potential threats of data-mining and publication bias. We propose extended meta-regression models and evaluate their performance in identifying genuine empirical effects by...