Create Transformer to combine coordinates from different experiments in the same studies #728
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diagnostics
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Summary
Per Turkeltaub et al. (2012), treating separate experiments from the same subject group as independent introduces bias. We haven't really tackled this problem in NiMARE, because we don't have any identifier for individual subject groups. However, what we do have are study and experiment IDs. Different experiments from the same study can easily be (1) from different subject groups or (2) from incompatible contrasts, so I don't think it's a good idea to automatically merge these coordinates within, say, the ALE Estimator.
What I am proposing is a new Transformer, that would identify any studies with multiple experiments in a Dataset, and merge them into a single experiment (if they have matching metadata, such as sample size). Users would then have to elect to do this prior to their meta-analysis.
Additional details
This would reduce the influence of studies with multiple experiments on coordinate-based meta-analyses.
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