A slow-growth high-mortality meta-analysis for insects:A comment on Chen and Chen

• 来源期刊: 中国昆虫科学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（2）
• 页码范围: 352-354
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12459

摘要

Dear Editor, Insect Science recently published a meta-analysis that tried to test support for the slow-growth high-mortality (hereafter SG-HM) hypothesis (Chen & Chen,2018).Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical tool used to quantitatively compare and summarize multiple studies (Arnqvist & Wooster,1995).However,results from a meta-analysis must be carefully interpreted when only limited sample sizes are available.Many conclusions made by Chen and Chen (2018) are based on low sample sizes and/or have small fail-safe numbers,which is problematic when making conclusions about whether the SG-HM hypothesis is supported or rejected.