what is a meta analysis vs literature review
- Nearly every paper has literature review which discusses previous work in the field. Meta-analysis is a statistical method, based on weighted analysis, of pooling effect sizes. The math of meta-analysis isn't all that difficult now, though it's no... - The official version: A literature review is a free but unsystematic discussion of the literature relating to a matter. By contrast a meta-review (supposedly) is a formal, neutral analysis of the data (contained in the literature) of that matter, and (supposedly) the best of all forms of evidence on a question. In reality: