Risk of Bias

👷‍♀️ This documentation page is still under construction.

Online Handbook

On metapsy.org/rob/handbook, you can find an online handbook. This handbook provides further explanations on how to answer the signaling questions and includes all algorithms used to obtain the ratings. The handbook is always based on the latest version of the guidance document (see “Versioning”).


Versioning

The key document for the Metapsy risk of bias tool is the PDF guidance document, which is assigned a new version when changes are made. Updates to the guidance document will also be reflected in the Risk of Bias Assistant, the Database Application, R functions, and the online handbook.

The latest version will be displayed at metapsy.org/rob in the fingerprint widget, like this:

By clicking on the fingerprint button, you can copy a permalink to the current version to your clipboard (e.g., metapsy.org/rob/#v1.0-0 for version 1.0-0). This permalink ensures rating decisions can be reproduced even when new versions are released.


Downloads

1 The first five rows of this sheet have already been removed for use in the database application.