File-drawer-problem Definition
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(statistics) The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.
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file-drawer-problemsOrigin of File-drawer-problem
From the notion of statistical studies that show no significant effect tending to remain unpublished in file drawers.
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