%0 Journal Article %T Evidentiary Standards in Medicine with Particular Reference to Meta-analysis %A Yee Hung Choy %A Anthony Shannon %J Bioautomation %D 2009 %I %X The purpose of this paper is to raise issues about what constitutes convincing medical evidence, particularly in meta-analysis. While meta-analysis, like any statistical approach, is open to abuse, the point here is how compelling does the quality of evidence need to be in order to be convincing? %K Meta-analysis %K Epidemiology %K Controlled trials %K Cohort %K Case-control %K Quasi-Experimentation %K Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logic %U http://www.clbme.bas.bg/bioautomation/2009/vol_12.1/files/12_2.4.pdf