Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process or technique of synthesizing research results by using various statistical methods to retrieve, select, and combine results from previous separate but related studies.
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- noun statistics Any systematic procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies.
- noun statistics An analysis resulting from combining the results of diverse
statistical studies. - noun An analysis performed at a higher level of abstraction than that of basic analysis.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This type of study is called a meta-analysis, the object of which is to pool data from a variety of sources to try to identify significant trends.
Women smokers are at greater risk for heart disease than men 2011
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To find out whether video games could play a role in stroke rehabilitation, Saposnik's team performed what is called a meta-analysis.
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This type of study is called a meta-analysis, the object of which is to pool data from a variety of sources to try to identify significant trends.
Women smokers are at greater risk for heart disease than men 2011
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This process is called a meta-analysis, in which researchers look for trends in the data that may support a particular conclusion, even when these data were not the main point of the study.
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Instead, researchers use a system, known as meta-analysis, that's a powerful tool in medical research.
Should Healthy People Take Cholesterol Drugs to Prevent Heart Disease? 2012
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For the study, Franco's team did a meta-analysis, which is a type of study where researchers comb the medical literature to find trends in relevant published studies.
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In their review, known as a meta-analysis, the researchers looked for common threads that could establish how these factors might rank in risk.
Coffee, sex, smog can all trigger heart attack, study finds 2011
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This method, termed meta-analysis, would deeply influence academic epidemiology in the future.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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This method, termed meta-analysis, would deeply influence academic epidemiology in the future.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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This method, termed meta-analysis, would deeply influence academic epidemiology in the future.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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