Funnel plot: Difference between revisions

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== Quotation ==

Funnel plots, introduced by Light and Pillemer in 1984<ref>{{Cite book

| author author1= R. J. Light, |author2=D. B. Pillemer | title = Summing up: The Science of Reviewing Research

| title = Summing up: The Science of Reviewing Research

| publisher = [[Harvard University Press]]

| year = 1984

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| doi=10.1136/bmj.315.7109.629

}}</ref><ref name="SterneJ2001Funnel">{{Cite journal

| author author1= Jonathan A. C. Sterne & |author2=Matthias Egger | title = Funnel plots for detecting bias in meta-analysis: guidelines on choice of axis

| title = Funnel plots for detecting bias in meta-analysis: guidelines on choice of axis

| journal = [[Journal of Clinical Epidemiology]]

| volume = 54

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The appearance of the funnel plot can change quite dramatically depending on the scale on the y-axis &mdash; whether it is the inverse square error or the trial size.<ref>{{Cite journal

| author author1= Jin-Ling Tang & |author2=Joseph LY Liu | title = Misleading funnel plot for detection of bias in meta-analysis

| title = Misleading funnel plot for detection of bias in meta-analysis

| journal = [[Journal of Clinical Epidemiology]]

| volume = 53