A Nonparametric “Trim and Fill” Method of Accounting for Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis

By S. Duval, Richard L. Tweedie. 2000

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Added Value of Dialogic Parent–Child Book Readings: A Meta-Analysis (2008, methodology): “We used the “trim and fill” method to calculate the effect of potential file drawer problems (Duval & Tweedie, 2000a, 2000b).”
Is there a universal positivity bias in attributions? A meta-analytic review of individual, developmental, and cultural differences in the self-serving attributional bias. (2004, background): “Trim and fill procedures (Duval & Tweedie, 2000a, 2000b) indicated that no studies needed to be trimmed to correct for publication bias.”
Niche breadth predicts geographical range size: a general ecological pattern. (2013, methodology): “Our second approach was to use a ‘trim and fill’ method, which suppresses the most extreme positive studies to generate a symmetrical funnel plot and re-calculates the effect size without these studies (Duval & Tweedie 2000a,b).”
Publication Bias in Strategic Management Research (2017, methodology): “This tests for suppression among studies with weaker than expected results or a negative relation (Duval & Tweedie, 2000a).”
Quantifying Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis (2017, methodology): “(Suppressing negative effect sizes) Publication bias can be also induced on the basis of study effect size (Duval and Tweedie, 2000a,b; Peters et al., 2006).”
Food cue reactivity and craving predict eating and weight gain: a meta-analytic review (2015, positive): “Using a second approach, we created a funnel plot depicting standard error by Fisher’s z (135), assessed for publication bias (136–138) and conducted a trim-and-fill analysis (139,140) to estimate the number of studies with negative findings that are potentially missing from the literature.”
Association between time to initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy and survival in colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2011, methodology): “In addition, the trim and fill approach was used to obtain an adjusted effect size that takes into account publication bias.(10,11) The sensitivity of the analysis to the largest studies was examined by sequentially removing the largest studies and calculating a combined result from among the remain”