Trim and Fill: A Simple Funnel‐Plot–Based Method of Testing and Adjusting for Publication Bias in Meta‐Analysis

By S. Duval, Richard L. Tweedie. Biometrics, 2000

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Is diabetes mellitus associated with mortality and severity of COVID-19? A meta-analysis (2020, positive): “Hence, a trim and fill analysis of Duval and Tweedie [20] was used to evaluate the number of missing studies and we recalculated the pooled odds ratio with the addition of those missing hypothetical studies.”
The Big Five and tertiary academic performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2014, methodology): “Finally, the Duval and Tweedie’s Trim and Fill method (Duval & Tweedie, 2000) was used to estimate the number of missing studies and re-compute the summary effects with these missing studies imputed into the model.”
Mind full of ideas: A meta-analysis of the mindfulness–creativity link (2016, methodology): “The first one was the analysis of the funnel plot (Duval & Tweedie, 2000).”
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Related Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials (2018, methodology): “In addition, the Trim and Fill method (Duval & Tweedie, 2000) was used, which estimates the number of studies that would have to be removed from the funnel plot to make it symmetrical, and then imputes an estimated effect size that accounts for funnel plot asymmetry.”
Do native and invasive plants differ in their interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi? A meta‐analysis (2015, methodology): “In addition, for models without moderators, we also evaluated the results via the trim and fill method, which estimates the number of studies missing from a meta-analysis due to publication bias (Duval & Tweedie 2000).”
Outcomes of religious and spiritual adaptations to psychotherapy: A meta-analytic review (2007, methodology): “As a final step, we used the ‘‘trim-and-fill’’ methodology described by Duval and Tweedie (2000a, 2000b) to estimate the number of studies missing as a result of publication bias and to recalculate the weighted mean effect sizes accordingly.”
Effect of aerobic exercise on hippocampal volume in humans: A systematic review and meta‐analysis (2018, neutral): “Where significant bias was detected, a Duval and Tweedie (2000) trim-and-fill analysis was applied.”
Does prosody make the difference? A meta-analysis on relations between prosodic aspects of infant-directed speech and infant outcomes. (2017, methodology): “…has the shape of a funnel, because studies with smaller sample sizes have increasingly large variation in estimates of their effect size as random variation becomes increasingly influential, whereas studies with larger sample sizes have smaller variation in effect sizes (Duval & Tweedie, 2000).”
A comparison of methods to detect publication bias in meta‐analysis (2001, methodology): “A more recent, potentially simpler approach, which assumes that selection of studies is based on the size and direction of the treatment e ect, uses an iterative non-parametric method to provide a corrected estimate of treatment based on the symmetry property of the funnel plot [21].”
Fostering security? A meta-analysis of attachment in adopted children. (2009, methodology): “The results of these possibly missing studies can be estimated using Duval and Tweedie's ‘trim and fill’ method (Duval & Tweedie, 2000a,b).”