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SUBMITTER: Gheibi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6942170 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gheibi Sevda S Mahmoodzadeh Alireza A Kashfi Khosrow K Jeddi Sajad S Ghasemi Asghar A
International journal of endocrinology and metabolism 20191008 4
Graphs, an effective form of data presentation, are used for summarizing complex information and making them easier to understand. Extracting numerical data from graphs, which is commonly required in systematic reviews and meta-analyses, is however a challenging issue. Since this kind of results presentation is common, ignorance of such data may result in publication bias when conducting meta-analyses. On the other hand, contacting the authors of a particular publication in order to retrieve the ...[more]