The PRISMA statement includes guidelines on performing these studies, some of which are published by the Cochrane Library. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of study whose “systematic” type may involve conducting a literature search and meta-analysis.
ANSWER: review papers [or review articles; accept systematic reviews]
[10e] A literature search might involve typing keywords connected with these words into a search engine. The three most basic of these words are AND, OR, and NOT.
ANSWER: Boolean operators [or Booleans; accept logical operators or logical connectives; accept sentential operators or sentential connectives]
[10h] Meta-analyses often involve creating a plot described by this word to display several point estimates and confidence intervals. Leo Breiman formalized and named a “random” ensemble learning bagging method named for this word.
ANSWER: forest [accept forest plot; accept random forest or random decision forest]
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