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History of meta‐analysis
Pearson 1906
first attempt in pooling data
Fisher 1935
first example of analysis of multiple studies
Rhine et al. 1940
first meta-analysis of identical experiments
History of meta‐analysis
Beecher 1955
First meta-analysis of a medical treatment
Glass 1970
sophisticated analytical techniques introduced by Glass, Schmidt and Hunter
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