meta-analysis

noun

Etymology

From meta- + analysis.

  1. derived from ἀνάλυσις
  2. derived from analysis
  3. formed as meta-analysis — “meta- + analysis

Definitions

  1. Any systematic procedure for statistically combining the results of many different…

    Any systematic procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies.

    • She began asking the question, “Were you friends with your partner before you became romantically involved?” in her other research and conducted a meta-analysis for this paper.
  2. An analysis resulting from combining the results of diverse statistical studies.

  3. An analysis performed at a higher level of abstraction than that of basic analysis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for meta-analysis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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