Meta-analysis

A statistical technique for evaluating hypotheses by providing a formal mechanism for detecting the general conclusions found in data from many different experiments.

meta-analysis

Health care; Pharmacy

A method for combining the results from several independent studies of the same outcome so that an overall P value may be determined.

meta-analysis

Agriculture; General agriculture

A quantitative method of combining the results of independent studies (usually drawn from the published literature) and synthesizing summaries and conclusions which may be used to ...

environmental scanning

Sociology; Criminology

A systematic effort to identify in an elemental way future developments (trends or events) that could plausibly occur over the time horizon of interest, and that might impact ...

uniform crime reports (UCR)

Sociology; Criminology

A summation of crime statistics tallied annually by the federal bureau of investigation (fbi) and consisting primarily of data on crimes reported to the police and of arrests.

McNaughten rule

Sociology; Criminology

A standard for judging legal insanity which requires that either an offender did not know what he or she were doing, or that, if he or she did, that he or she did not know it was ...

substantial capacity test

Sociology; Criminology

A standard for judging legal insanity which requires that a person lack "the mental capacity needed to understand the wrongfulness of his act, or to conform his behavior to the ...

irresistible impulse test

Sociology; Criminology

A standard for judging legal insanity which holds that a defendant is not guilty of a criminal offense if the person, by virtue of their mental state or psychological condition, ...

Durham rule

Sociology; Criminology

A standard for judging legal insanity which holds that "an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect. "

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NEOShield

An EU funded project that aims to protect the Earth from collisions with near-Earth objects, or NEOs, celestial flotsam such as asteroids or comets ...