meta-analysis

Noun

meta-analysis (countable and uncountable, plural meta-analyses)

1. Any systematic procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies.
   • She began asking the question, “Were you friends with your partner before you became romantically involved?” in her other research and conducted a meta-analysis for this paper.2021 July 20, Sarah Molano, “Most romantic relationships start as friendships, study finds”, in CNN
2. An analysis resulting from combining the results of diverse statistical studies.
3. An analysis performed at a higher level of abstraction than that of basic analysis.