Statistical analysisWe analyzed the patients who received SBRT or RFA after PSM. We calculated event rates of the outcome (the proportion of patients who developed relevant outcomes) from the included cohorts for those two therapie...
A variance calculation and a node-splitting analysis provided by the software ADDIS 1.15 were applied to evaluate the inconsistency within the network meta-analysis. Significant inconsistency existed if the difference between random effects variance and inconsistency variance was large or a P< 0.05 of ...
; In the relationship between PSNU and FoMO, the 11 effect sizes below the theoretical mean scores were excluded from analysis, and the sensitivity analysis results were recalculated (r = 0.508, 95%CI[0.470, 0.544]). The revised estimates indicate that meta-analysis results were stable. ...
Meta-regression analysis (Hedges and Olkin1985; Lipsey and Wilson2001; Stanley and Jarrell1989) aims to investigate the heterogeneity among observed effect sizes by testing multiple potential moderators simultaneously. In meta-regression, the coded effect size is used as the dependent variable and is ...
There was no overlap of replicated CpGs between eGFR and UACR, indicating trait-specific DNA methylation profiles in blood. Even among the 967 and 270 suggestive associations (P-value < 1E−05) of a combined discovery and replication sample meta-analysis for eGFR and UACR, respectively, ...
an abstract, high-level analysis or commentary: writing a meta to explain the character’s motivation. verb (used without object) to analyze or comment on something in a meta way: I spend more time metaing about the show than actually watching it. ...
Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test: graphical test is itself biased. BMJ. 1998;316:4709492687Google Scholar 13. Peters JL, Sutton AJ, Jones DR, Abrams KR, Rushton L. Performance of Tests and Adjustments for Publication Bias in the Presence of Heterogeneity: Technical...
Meta-analysis is the quantitative, scientific synthesis of research results. Since the term and modern approaches to research synthesis were first introduced in the 1970s, meta-analysis has had a revolutionary effect in many scientific fields, helping to establish evidence-based practice and to resolv...
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Danielle Posthuma, Peter Visscher and colleagues report a meta-analysis of 17,804 traits based on virtually all twin studies from the last 50 years. For a majority of traits, twin resemblance seems solely due to additive genetic variation and lacks evide