ca.number: Number of records remaining after critical appraisal

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Number of records remaining after critical appraisal

Description

This function calculates the number of records remaining after critical appraisal (i.e. assessment of study internal and external validity) in a systematic review, based on the inputs of the number of records remaining after meta-data extraction ('mdataextr.number', see 'mdataextr.number' function) and the percentage of records retained through this critical appraisal stage ('ca.retained'). Default values are provided based on the empirical study of environmental systematic reviews by Haddaway and Westgate (2018) https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13231.

Usage

ca.number(mdataextr.number = 100.1607, ca.retained = 76)

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