Open AccessStudy designs: Part 9 – Meta-analysis (II)
Author(s) -
Rakesh Aggarwal,
Priya Ranganathan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
perspectives in clinical research
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2229-5488
pISSN - 2229-3485
DOI - 10.4103/picr.picr_369_20
Subject(s) - meta analysis , computer science , systematic review , information retrieval , data science , medline , medicine , chemistry , biochemistry
The previous two articles in this series gave an overview of the methodology of systematic reviews and meta-analysis. In this third and concluding article, we look at the different types of biases that can confound the results of a meta-analysis and briefly describe some special types of meta-analysis.