Meta-analysis is the quantitative, scientific synthesis of research results. Since the term and modern approaches to research synthesis were first introduced in the 1970s, meta-analysis has had a ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr John Ioannidis, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, and Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine and Department of ...

This post was written by Adrien Fillon from the University of Aix-Marseille, France, who led a meta-analysis of the "exceptionality effect" discussed in this post. Gilad Feldman, the corresponding ...