meta-analystn.
/ˌmɛtəˈanəlɪst/, /ˌmɛtəˈanl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəˈænl̩əst/ Statistics.
A person who carries out meta-analyses.
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1980 Jrnl. Personality 48 455 The same assumptions about the role of statistical significance testing..lead some meta-analysts to ignore statistical significance in favor of estimates of effect size.
1987 Res. Organizational Behavior 9 416 Several aspects of meta-analytic review procedures..threaten their presumed objectivity and precision... Awareness of the point at which a meta-analyst must make judgment calls is necessary.
1990 Science 3 Aug. 478/3 To obtain all available information, meta-analysts must stringently search for unpublished experiments.
1995 Ecology 76 2004/1 Probably no single number can combine all this information (though Bayesians and some meta-analysts may disagree).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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