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.
The Factor Analysis is an explorative analysis. Much like the cluster analysis grouping similar cases, the factor analysis groups similar variables into dimensions. This process is also called identifying latent variables. Since factor analysis is an explorative analysis it does not distinguish between independent and dependent variables.