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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by ekianjo on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:17PM (#28623772)
how would you know when they actually started the analysis?
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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by gnicholas on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:46PM (#28624732)
That's one of the reasons I was asking. Perhaps they could pre-register prior to being given the full data from other studies?
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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by ekianjo on Saturday September 25, 2021 @12:06AM (#28650434)
If the data is kind of public or going around in your circles you could easily hack this pre-registration constraint.
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