noun

• Examination of data from a number of independent studies of the same subject, in order to determine overall trends.

  ‘an important component of meta-analysis is the investigation of the consistency of treatment effects across studies’

  More example sentences

  • ‘the advantage of meta-analysis is that large trials with over 1,000 subjects are almost never done’
  • ‘a meta-analysis was performed by extracting available data from scientific papers’