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Meta analysis

A process to summarise results from multiple sets of data from different scientific studies. In statistics, a meta-analysis combines the results of multiple studies that explore a set of hypotheses. In its basic form, this is generally by identification of a mean measure of effect size, for which a weighted average might be the output of a meta-analyses.

See also:
Mean
Data analysis
Hypothesis

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