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file-drawer problems

file-drawer problems is the plural of file-drawer problem.

Meaning of file-drawer problem

Noun

file-drawer problem (plural file-drawer problems)

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 The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.

Questions about file-drawer problems

What is file-drawer problems the plural of?
File-drawer problems is the plural of file-drawer problem.

Words near file-drawer problems in the dictionary

  1. file videotapes
  2. file with
  3. file-card
  4. file-cards
  5. file-drawer problem
  6. file-drawer problems
  7. fileable
  8. filecard
  9. filecards
  10. filed
  11. filed away

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