Introduction to Meta-analyses and Systematic reviews

FRB-CESAB, UMS PatriNat & Cirad HortSys Training course

Joseph Langridge https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Langridge (FRB)https://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr , Damien Beillouin https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Damien-Beillouin (Cirad HortSys)https://ur-hortsys.cirad.fr/ , Jonathan Bonfanti https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonathan-Bonfanti (INRAe Eco&Sols)https://www.umr-ecosols.fr/ , C. Sylvie Campagne https://csylviecampagne.com/ (Sorbonne University)https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/ , Nicolas Casajus https://nicolascasajus.fr (FRB-CESAB)https://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/la-fondation/le-cesab/ , Frédéric Gosselin https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/frederic-gosselin (INRAe)https://www.inrae.fr/ , Dakis-Yaoba Ouédraogo https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dakis-Yaoba-Ouedraogo-2 (Independent expert)# , Cathleen Petit https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rcyli4QAAAAJ&hl=fr (FRB-CESAB)https://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/la-fondation/le-cesab/ , Romain Sordello https://www.biodiversite.romain-sordello.fr/ (UMS PatriNat)https://www.patrinat.fr/fr , Devi Veytia https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KG2HtuUAAAAJ&hl=en (ENS-PSL)https://www.ens.psl.eu/
10-07-2024

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The objective of this five-day training course, co-organized by the FRB-CESAB, the UMS PatriNat and the Cirad HortSys is to train young researchers on the methods and techniques of meta-analyses and systematic reviews/maps applied to the field of biodiversity.

N.B. This training course is in French, but slides are available in English in the tab Courses/.


Program

Monday Icebreaker & Introduction to the week
Introduction to meta-analyses
Involving stakeholders & Formulating questions
The Protocol
Bibliographic databases & Search equations
Constitution of the corpus
Article screening: Systematic methods & Eligibility criteria
Full-text retrieval
Tuesday Introduction to automated screening techniques
AI-assisted screening
Reporting
Systematic maps: Metadata extraction
Qualitative metadata extraction: Machine learning approach
Data visualization
Critical appraisal: understanding its importance
Wednesday Meta-analyses: quantitative approaches
Quantitative data extraction: what tools are available?
Risk of bias and interpretation of meta-analysis results
Going beyond global mean effect size
Thursday - Friday Subgroups projects


Prerequisites

Please follow this tutorial to install your working environment before attending the training course. Note: for this course only R and RStudio Desktop are required.


See also

Discover the other training courses provided by the FRB-CESAB and its partners: https://frbcesab.github.io/content/courses.html

Citation

Langridge J, Beillouin D, Bonfanti J, Campagne CS, Casajus N, Gosselin F, Ouédraogo D-Y, Petit C, Sordello R & Veytia D (2024) FRB-CESAB, UMS PatriNat & Cirad HortSys training course: Introduction to meta-analyses and systematic reviews.

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