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Meta-analysis is a common feature of quantitative synthesis for systematic reviews, one of the four archetypes in this book.
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Notes
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By some the replication continuum is attributed to the work of Lipsey and Wilson (1993). However, there is no mention of it. Also, the statement ‘the closer to pure replications your collection of studies, the easier it is to argue comparability’ does not appear in the text of Lipsey and Wilson nor can it be interpreted as a paraphrased statement. This means caution is required when looking for the origins of the replication continuum.
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Hendrick (1990) refers to a working paper written by him in 1974 about the dichotomy ‘strict replication’ and ‘conceptual replication.’
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The other two of the three preceding systematic reviews with meta-analysis were dated fifteen years before this systematic review using the odds ratio for conducting the meta-analysis.
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The authors do not use the term ‘grey literature’, which is introduced here for consistency of terminology in the book.
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See Section 3.3 for more detail on ontology in the context of research paradigms.
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See Dickersin (1990, pp. 1385–1386) for some historical notes with regard to publication bias.
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