Abstract:Conventional meta-analysis summarizes evidence through pooled estimates, intervals, and p-values, but these outputs do not directly measure evidence for an effect, evidence for no effect, or the degree to which conclusions depend on publication selection or small-study effects. We introduce a corpus-scale Bayesian evidential-audit workflow for meta-analytic corpora. The workflow reconstructs or accepts study-level effects and standard errors, harmonizes directions, fits a matched Bayesian random-effects baseline and a bias-aware model-averaged ensemble, and reports paired estimates with component and joint model-family evidence. The central estimand is rigor: a joint Bayes-factor summary combining resolved effect/no-effect evidence with absence of an explicit bias component in the fitted ensemble. Rigor is not a positive-finding score; no-effect evidence can score highly, whereas inconclusive or bias-dependent evidence scores poorly. We characterize the workflow using an ADEMP-framed simulation/resampling design with known-cell synthetic simulation, empirical registry resampling, and empirical fitted-profile-weighted synthetic sampling. A nutrition intervention corpus provides the worked case study, where bias-aware fitting often attenuates conventional estimates and many nominally meaningful effects lose clean evidential support. A public companion repository provides empirical inputs, generated artifacts, simulation source/design files, and documentation for reproducing and adapting the audit.
From: Matthew Hester [view email]
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