Meta-Analysis
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[[Simply text, cropped at the very top of the first line and very bottom of the last line to give the impression it is a snippet of a longer text. Reads:
Many meta-analysis studies include the phrase "we searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane for studies..."
This has led to meta-meta-analysses comparing meta-analysis methods.
eg. M Sampson (2003), PL Royle (2005)
E Lee (2011), AR Lemeshow (2005)
We performed a meta-meta-meta-analysis of these meta-meta-analyses.
Methods: We searched Medline, embase, and Cochrane for the phrase 'we searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane for the phrase "we searched Medline, Embase, and]]
Life Goal #28: Get a paper rejected with the comment "too meta"
{{Title text: Life goal #29 is to get enough of them rejected that I can publish a comparative analysis of the rejection letters.}}