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Maxi Schulz; Malte Kramer; Oliver Kuss; Tim Mathes – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
In sparse data meta-analyses (with few trials or zero events), conventional methods may distort results. Although better-performing one-stage methods have become available in recent years, their implementation remains limited in practice. This study examines the impact of using conventional methods compared to one-stage models by re-analysing…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Data Analysis, Research Methodology, Research Problems
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Maya B. Mathur – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
As traditionally conceived, publication bias arises from selection operating on a collection of individually unbiased estimates. A canonical form of such selection across studies (SAS) is the preferential publication of affirmative studies (i.e., those with significant, positive estimates) versus nonaffirmative studies (i.e., those with…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Research Reports, Research Methodology, Research Problems
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Yuan Tian; Xi Yang; Suhail A. Doi; Luis Furuya-Kanamori; Lifeng Lin; Joey S. W. Kwong; Chang Xu – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
RobotReviewer is a tool for automatically assessing the risk of bias in randomized controlled trials, but there is limited evidence of its reliability. We evaluated the agreement between RobotReviewer and humans regarding the risk of bias assessment based on 1955 randomized controlled trials. The risk of bias in these trials was assessed via two…
Descriptors: Risk, Randomized Controlled Trials, Classification, Robotics