Andreas Ortmann·3d agoAbout that recent meta-analysis of financial incentives and performance in economics experimentsCala et al. posted recently a manuscript on social media that has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Political Economy —…
Maooz Abdullah·Oct 1A Practical Guide to Network Meta-Analysis in R Using the ‘netmeta’ PackageTraditional meta-analyses are limited to comparing two treatments head-to-head. But in real-world clinical practice, healthcare providers…
Antonis Siargkas·Sep 27Your screeners agreed on 97% of abstracts. Kappa says 0.23. Both are right.The same 30 disagreements can score anywhere from 0.23 to 0.91. Here is why kappa moves with how rare your includes are, and what to report…A response icon1A response icon1
InLevel Up CodingbyKazi Sabbir Ahmad Nahin·Sep 22She Was 28. Her Country Has No Number for That.How to estimate a national disease burden when nobody has ever counted — and how to tell when you are fooling yourself
InArtificial Intelligence in Plain EnglishbyGareth Brown·Sep 16The AI Reviewer’s Hangover: Why Your Engineers Are Exhausted and How to Fix ItLet’s be honest for a second.A response icon2A response icon2
Antonis Siargkas·Sep 12Prediction Intervals in Meta-Analysis: I Read 1,500 ReviewsA confidence interval tells you how well the average is known. A prediction interval tells you what the next study will find. Forty-six of…A response icon2A response icon2
Antonis Siargkas·Sep 9Two in five small meta-analyses run a test that cannot workThe tests for publication bias need about ten studies before they mean anything. I checked 296 published reviews that had fewer than ten…
Antonis Siargkas·Sep 7A wrong number in a meta-analysis may not look wrongAI can now fill a data extraction table in minutes. Here is what has to be true before you let it, and five checks that work on any tool…
Scholay Research·Aug 29From a Research Idea to a Viable Protocol: Is a Meta-Analysis Worth Doing?A practical feasibility test using PFAS exposure and lipid outcomes as an example
Lifeflexi·Aug 20Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: Detection, Quantification, and AdjustmentPublication bias arises when the probability of a study appearing in the literature depends on the statistical significance or direction of…
