Research in Higher Education, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1979), pp. 321-341 (21 pages) The present article describes a statistical synthesis of results from 48 comparative studies of an innovative method of ...

Network meta-analysis (NMA) is a method that pools evidence from randomised controlled trials that compare two or more interventions, but where each trial may compare different interventions. NMA ...

Meta-analysis is an objective examination of published data from many studies of the same research topic identified through a literature search. Through the use of rigorous statistical methods, it can ...

This course aims to introduce participants to the methodology of systematic reviews and meta-analysis. It is taught by a team of systematic reviewers, research synthesis methodologists, information ...

In evidence-based medicine (EBM), systematic reviews and meta-analyses have been widely applied in biological and medical research. Moreover, the most popular application of meta-analyses in this ...

While science as a whole has produced remarkably reliable answers to a lot of questions, it does so despite the fact that any individual study may not be reliable. Issues like small errors on the part ...