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Re: Meta-analysis literature searches

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From: Keith O'Rourke
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:00
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<(I don't know if this helps you directly, but there is a message
<here, that at least a few of us have a lot of *scorn*  for what
<some meta-analyses have pretended to show us...   just another
<inept literature review, but decorated with numbers).



<Rich Ulrich, biostatistician              wpilib+@pitt.edu
<Western Psychiatric Inst. and Clinic   Univ. of Pittsburgh

Perhaps what such metaanalyses actually show is that the individual 
studies can not be interpreted ... not an inept literature review 
but a inconclusive quantitative review of inept research (and research 
reporting). 

If you can't interpret studies as a group how can you interpret them 
individually?

If you want to be able to interpret individual studies conduct and report 
them so that they can be conclusively metaanalized.

Keith O'Rourke
The Toronto Hosp.
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From: orourke@utstat.toronto.edu (Keith O'Rourke)
Subject: Re: Meta-analysis literature searches
Date: 1996/04/19
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