#1447: Meta-Analysis explain

[Excerpt from a scientific paper.]

Many meta-analysis studies include the phrase “We searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane for studies…”

This has led to meta-meta-analyses comparing meta-analysis methods. e.g. M Sampson (2003), PL Royle (2005), E Lee (2011), AR Lemeshow (2005).

We performed a meta-meta-meta-analysis of these meta-meta-analyses.

Methods: We searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane for the phrase “We searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane for the phrase ‘We searched Medline, Embase, and [cut off]

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Life goal #28: get a paper rejected with the comment “Too meta”