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Table 3 Summary statistics for elicitation method

From: A study of target effect sizes in randomised controlled trials published in the Health Technology Assessment journal

DELTA elicitation method

Frequency

%

Anchor

0

0

Distribution

2

1.9

Health economics

1

0.9

Opinion-seeking

10

9.3

Pilot

4

3.7

Review of evidence

49

45.8

Standard effect size (SES)

5

4.7

Mixeda

7

6.5

No mention

21

19.6

Other

8

7.5

  1. a‘Mixed’ methods included review of evidence