English Explanatory Dictionary

file-drawer problem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.

Word forms

file-drawer problem file-drawer problems

Etymology

From the notion of statistical studies that show no significant effect tending to remain unpublished in file drawers.

Related words

funnel plot publication bias
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