meta-analyses
Combined research reviews
Meta-analyses are studies that combine data from multiple independent research studies on the same question to reach broader conclusions.
By pooling results, a meta-analysis gains statistical power that individual studies lack: The meta-analysis of twenty trials found the treatment effective.
The method is standard in medical and social science research, though critics note that combining flawed studies can amplify rather than correct their errors.
State of being dissimilar
Combining parts into whole
- aggregationCombined collection of items
- replicationAct of duplicating precisely
- corroborationEvidence confirming another account
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
triangulation · generalizability · robustness · consistency · conclusiveness
Organized electronic information collections
- peer-reviewedEvaluated by field experts
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
- citationsAcknowledged source mentions
heterogeneity
State of being dissimilar
heterogeneity
State of being dissimilar
- weightingAssigning relative importance values
synthesis
Combining parts into whole
- aggregationCombined collection of items
- replicationAct of duplicating precisely
- corroborationEvidence confirming another account
convergence · triangulation · generalizability · robustness · consistency · conclusiveness
databases
Organized electronic information collections
- peer-reviewedEvaluated by field experts
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
- citationsAcknowledged source mentions
- Academic Papersjournal articles, research papers, peer-reviewed articles, original research, review articles
- academic publishingscholarly books, academic papers, academic journals, monographs, scholarly works
- health publicationshealth guidelines, health advisories, medical reports, medical journals, public health data
- Medical Publishingmedical journals, medical research, medical literature, peer-reviewed, research journals
- scholarshipacademic papers, publications, research papers, theories, dissertations
- scientific publicationsresearch articles, journal articles, research papers, peer-reviewed studies, review articles
meta-analysesprimary research
Data gathered directly by researcher
original research · anecdotal evidence · empirical studies · expert opinion · field experiments
analysis, analyze, analyst, analytical, analyses, meta-analysis