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Interior of a steel and glass pedestrian bridge showing the structural framing.

CEGR 492 · Chapter 2 — Literature Review

Source Discovery

Structural framing of a pedestrian bridge: members, connections and the load path a designer must trace.

Source Discovery

Screen search results into a saved, tagged, de-duplicated source library.

Source Discovery

Screen search results into a saved, tagged, de-duplicated source library.

Learning objectives

  • Screen titles and abstracts against inclusion criteria
  • Record exclusion reasons that a reviewer can audit
  • Build a library that covers every objective

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Probability and Statistics

Handbook §2 — Descriptive statistics (placeholder)

  • How would you report a screening yield of 18 of 240 results?
  • What does a high duplicate rate suggest about your search strings?
  • How many sources per objective is defensible?

Screening turns a raw pile of search results into a defensible, tagged library. Set your inclusion and exclusion criteria first, then apply them consistently to every candidate source.

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