[R-meta] correlation between pre and post test?

[Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP)]

You will find a discussion of this here:

https://www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/analyses:morris2008

This doesn't get you around the problem of needing the pre-post correlations. As others have suggested, if you really cannot get the correlations from the articles/authors, you can assume some reasonable 'guestimates' and do sensitivity analyses.

The other things that have been brought up (e.g., the method by Riley, approximate V matrices, cluster-robust variance estimation) are actually addressing a different issue / type of correlation (the one between multiple effects measured in the same sample of subjects).

Best,
Wolfgang

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>Another way I found to calculate experiment-control pre-post test design SMD is
>
>Morris, S. B. . (2008). Estimating effect sizes from pretest-posttest-control
>group designs. Organizational Research Methods, 11(2), 364-386.
>
>Morris calculated the SMD by
>
>SMD = cp * (((mean_post_exp - mean_pre_exp) - (mean_post_ctrl - mean_pre_ctrl)) /
>sd_pre)
>
>where
>
>cp = 1- 3/(4(n_exp+n_ctrl - 2) -1)
>
>and
>
>sd_pre = sqrt(((n_exp - 1)*sd^2_pre_exp+(n_ctrl -1)*sd^2_pre_ctrl) / (n_exp
>+n_ctrl -2))
>
>There are people talking about this approach online. Do you think it is still a
>common practice today?