META-ANALYSIS

  

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META-ANALYSIS

Specialty Definition: META-ANALYSIS

DomainDefinition

Health

A quantitative method of combining the results of independent studies (usually drawn from the published literature) and synthesizing summaries and conclusions which may be used to evaluate therapeutic effectiveness, plan new studies, etc., with application chiefly in the areas of research and medicine. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Meta-analysis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A meta-analysis is a statistical procedure to combine a number of existing studies. Through such a procedure, effects which are hard or impossible to discern in the original studies because of a too small sample size can be made visible, as the meta-analysis is (in the ideal case) equivalent to a single study with the combined size of all original studies. A weakness of the method is that problems with any of the studies will affect the result of the meta-analysis, so a good meta-analysis of bad studies will still result in bad data.

See also:

Outspoken critics:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Meta-analysis."

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Commercial Usage: META-ANALYSIS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fast Pro: Software for Meta-Analysis by the Confidence Profile Method (reference)

  • How Science Takes Stock: The Story of Meta-Analysis (reference)

  • Judgment Studies: Design, Analysis, and Meta-Analysis (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) (reference)

  • Persuasion: Advances Through Meta-Analysis (The Hampton Press Communication Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: META-ANALYSIS

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Health

The same meta-analysis documented an excess of non-breast cancer deaths, the majority of which were vascular in nature. (references)

Randomized trials and a meta-analysis have shown that 5 years of tamoxifen are superior to 1 to 2 years of such treatment. (references)

Conversely, the incidence of PDA was not found to be reduced in the meta-analysis, but was significantly reduced in the observational database. (references)

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Usage Frequency: META-ANALYSIS

"META-ANALYSIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "META-ANALYSIS" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)92.31%2471,196
Adjective (general or positive)7.69%2245,945
                    Total100.00%26N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: META-ANALYSIS

Expression using "META-ANALYSIS": Meta-Analysis [Publication Type]. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: META-ANALYSIS

Language Translations for "META-ANALYSIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

meta-analyse. (various references)

   

French

  

méta-analyse. (various references)

   

German

  

Metaanalyse. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μετα-ανάλυση. (various references)

   

Italian

  

meta-analisi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eta-analysismay

   

Portuguese

  

meta-análise. (various references)

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Anagrams: META-ANALYSIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-i-l-m-n-s-s-t-y"

-1 letter: metanalysis.

-3 letters: animately, assailant, laminates, mainstays, melanists, smaltines, talismans.

-4 letters: ailments, aliments, amanitas, amentias, amnesias, amylases, anaemias, analyses, analysis, analysts, anatases, animates, antimale, elastins, entasias, laminate, mainstay, malaises, maltases, manliest, mantises, mantissa, matiness, melanist, mesnalty, misstyle, nailsets, nasalise, nasality, salesman, salients, saltines, satanism, sealants, seamanly, smaltine, staminal, staminas, staysail, steamily, talesman, taleysim, talisman.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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