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Teo Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Meta-analysis

What does "meta-analysis" mean?
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Is it related to the language or linguistics? Usually, meta language is a language about language. It is a language that you use to describe language, for example: subject, predicate, object etc.

— Antonia

  • Is it related to the language or linguistics?
  • Usually, meta language is a language about language.
  • It is a language that you use to describe language, for example: subject, predicate, object etc.
  • belong to the metalanguage.
  • Therefore, meta analysis, could be analasis of such a language.
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Is it related to the language or linguistics?
Usually, meta language is a language about language. It is a language that you use to describe language, for example: subject, predicate, object etc. belong to the metalanguage.
Therefore, meta analysis, could be analasis of such a language.
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It could also be the analysis of analyses, couldn't it?

CJ
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Yes, it could. You got it CalifJim!
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I searched in Google and found the following meaning :

? Meta-analysis is a statistical technique for combiningthe findings from independent studies.

? Meta-analysis is most often used to assess the clinicaleffectiveness of healthcare interventions; it does this bycombining data from two or more randomised control trials.

? Meta-analysis of trials provide
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Meta-analysis is the combination of data from several studies to produce a single estimate. For example, if scientists in different countries were studying the same thing, all their data could be checked and then combined to give a common result.
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