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This generated a publishing bias.
Tests for heterogeneity, sensitivity, and publishing bias were also performed.
Heterogeneity test, sensitivity analysis, and assessment of publishing bias were also performed.
There was some evidence of publishing bias regarding studies of depression and IR from visual inspection of the funnel plot (Supplementary Fig. 1) and the Begg coefficient (z = 2.22, P = 0.027).
The presence of publishing bias for the hypothesis of an association between depression and IR was assessed informally by visual inspections of funnel plots (25) and corroborated by Begg adjusted rank correlation (26) as implemented in metabias.
To our knowledge we are the first to demonstrate such bias, but such negative publishing bias is probably not unique to LLLT, and it may also be present for other electrophysical agents including TENS and acupuncture.
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In recent months the president, a handful of congressional Democrats and the repentant Republican who wrote the condition have urged lawmakers to end the ban, which was inspired by NRA accusations that the CDC was publishing biased studies.
The published bias comes to an unavoidable issue.
If studies with significant results are more likely to be published, bias is revealed in the plot as an empty area around zero that results from non-publication of insignificant or null results regardless of direction or sign.
In addition, it would be hard to interpret results, if significant publish bias was present.
Begg's test and Egger's test showed no significant publish bias among studies (P > 0.05, Table 3).
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