Accordingly, it was deemed inappropriate to pool these results in a meta-analysis.
It would be inappropriate to pool individuals, because individual-based estimates are dominated by a few abundant species and would greatly, and incorrectly, inflate statistical confidence (an error of pseudo-replication).
Therefore, it was inappropriate to pool the data.
Nevertheless, it was inappropriate to pool the data given that the sample sizes were highly variable across trials, one of which contained more than nine times as many subjects as the other.
The heterogeneous nature of reviews (eg, topic or focus, intervention type, number of components, outcome measures) makes it inappropriate to pool the data by undertaking a meta-analysis; therefore, a qualitative approach will be employed.
Meta-analysis was not undertaken in view of the clinical heterogeneity between the limited number of included studies, which made statistical pooling inappropriate in relation to periodontal health, survival and failure rates, patient-reported outcomes, and cost-effectiveness.
Even those studies adopting the same basic approach, such as altering the consent process, were generally sufficiently different to make pooling inappropriate.
Ms. Riegger called the pool site inappropriate and suggested building the pool either near the Reis Park ball fields or on the grounds of the new high school now under construction.
However, high heterogeneity (I2 = 63%) suggested pooling was inappropriate.
