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.
Factor analysis: intro. Factor analysis is used mostly for data reduction purposes: â To get a small set of variables (preferably uncorrelated) from a large set of. variables (most of which are correlated to each other) â To create indexes with variables that measure similar things (conceptually). Exploratory.