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Does Publication Bias Inflate the Apparent Efficacy of Psychological Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of US National Institutes of Health-Funded Trials.

PLoS One · 2015 · PMC4589340 · PMID 26422604

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a nonsignificant trendp = .06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
However, the number of studies that reported an adequate sequence generation evidenced a nonsignificant trend (38.6% and 77.8%, Fisher’s Exact test, p = .06) and the number of studies that reported that an independent party conducted the randomization was significantly smaller among the published studies (25.0%) than among the unpublished studies (77.8%; Fisher’s Exact test, p = .005).

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