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ArticleIEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions2021

Experiment Selection in Meta-Analytic Piecemeal Causal Discovery.

Nicholas J Matiasz, Justin Wood, Wei Wang, Alcino J Silva, William Hsu

Open access · goldAbstract read

In one paragraph

Article in IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

Evidence triangulator: using large language models to extract and synthesize causal evidence across study designs.Nature communications · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicholas J Matiasz *Departments of Bioengineering, Neurobiology, and Radiological Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8245-3545

Justin Wood *Departments of Computer Science, Neurobiology, and Bioengineering, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Wei WangDepartment of Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Alcino J SilvaDepartments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

William HsuDepartments of Radiological Sciences, Bioinformatics, and Bioengineering, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5168-070X

University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

UCLA Clinical Translational Science InstituteUL1TR001881 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ARLEEN F. BROWN, ARASH NAEIM · 2016 to 2026

$118.1M

UCLA Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR000124 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI DUBINETT, STEVEN M. · 2012 to 2015

$57.0M

Medical Imaging Informatics Training GrantT32EB016640 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ALEX BUI, William Hsu · 2013 to 2026

$2.3M

Biomedical Big Data Training GrantT32CA201160 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI PELLEGRINI, MATTEO · 2015 to 2015

$264k

NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000124NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001881NCI NIH HHS T32 CA201160NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB016640

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scientists try to design experiments that will yield maximal information. For instance, given the available evidence and a limitation on the number of variables that can be observed simultaneously, it may be more informative to intervene on variable

Indexed as

Causal discoverycause effect analysiscomputer aided analysisdesign of experimentsevidence synthesisgraphical models

Identifiers

PMID34532201

DOI10.1109/access.2021.3093524

PMCPMC8442252

OpenAlexW3185326394

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.