The effect direction plot revisited: Application of the 2019 Cochrane Handbook guidance on alternative synthesis methods

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 29-33

  Boon, Michele Hilton ^a   Thomson, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

data visualization; effect direction; standardized metric; synthesis; vote counting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT, HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AS TOPIC; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 85092085694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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