Adam R Hafdahl
Adam R Hafdahl
This sixth 'Article Alerts' installment's print component includes 100 methodological articles about research synthesis published in 2011. Since the preceding installment, more than 2100 items have been added to the archive component, mostl...
Larry V Hedges
Larry V Hedges
William R Shadish
William R Shadish
This issue of Research Synthesis Methods is devoted to discussion of the origins of modern meta-analysis. Three articles by pioneers in development meta-analysis are by Gene Glass, Frank Schmidt, and Robert Rosenthal, respectively. They ref...
David C Hoaglin
David C Hoaglin
Gerta Rücker,Guido Schwarzer
Gerta Rücker
In systematic reviews based on network meta-analysis, the network structure should be visualized. Network plots often have been drawn by hand using generic graphical software. A typical way of drawing networks, also implemented in statistic...
Assessing baseline imbalance in randomised trials: implications for the Cochrane risk of bias tool [0.03%]
评估随机试验中的基线不平衡：对Cochrane偏倚风险工具的影响
Mark S Corbett,Julian P T Higgins,Nerys F Woolacott
Mark S Corbett
A key component of the Cochrane Collaboration's risk of bias tool for critically evaluating randomised trials is the consideration of whether baseline characteristics of the treatment groups being compared are systematically different. Cons...
T D Stanley,Hristos Doucouliagos
T D Stanley
Publication selection bias is a serious challenge to the integrity of all empirical sciences. We derive meta-regression approximations to reduce this bias. Our approach employs Taylor polynomial approximations to the conditional mean of a t...
Techniques for identifying cross-disciplinary and 'hard-to-detect' evidence for systematic review [0.03%]
用于识别跨学科和“难以发现”的系统评价证据的技术
Alison O&#x;Mara-Eves,Ginny Brunton,David McDaid et al.
Alison O&#x;Mara-Eves et al.
Driven by necessity in our own complex review, we developed alternative systematic ways of identifying relevant evidence where the key concepts are generally not focal to the primary studies' aims and are found across multiple disciplines-t...
Pinpointing needles in giant haystacks: use of text mining to reduce impractical screening workload in extremely large scoping reviews [0.03%]
在巨大的干草堆中寻找针头：使用文本挖掘以减少巨量范围综述中的筛选工作量
Ian Shemilt,Antonia Simon,Gareth J Hollands et al.
Ian Shemilt et al.
In scoping reviews, boundaries of relevant evidence may be initially fuzzy, with refined conceptual understanding of interventions and their proposed mechanisms of action an intended output of the scoping process rather than its starting po...