The assessment of heterogeneity among collected studies is a critical step when performing a meta‐analysis, given its influence on model selection and conclusions about treatment effects. A common‐effect (CE)
fixed effect meta-analysis假定所有研究都估计固定的treatment effect,然而random effects meta-analysis允许不同研究中的treatment effect 差异。 fixed effect和random effects meta-analyses的区别:如下图,95%置信区间的Forest plots,fixed effect meta-analysis提供了对common treatment effect的最好估计,fixed effect假定...
meta-analysiswithfewstudies ChristianRöver 1* ,GuidoKnapp 2 andTimFriede 1 Abstract Background:Random-effectsmeta-analysisiscommonlyperformedbyfirstderivinganestimateofthe between-studyvariation,theheterogeneity,andsubsequentlyusingthisasthebasisforcombiningresults,i.e.,for estimatingtheeffect,thefigureofprimar...
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When multiple endpoints are of interest in evidence synthesis, a multivariate meta-analysis can jointly synthesise those endpoints and utilise their correlation. A multivariate random-effects meta-analysis must incorporate and estimate the between-study
Meta-analysis里面的FE和RE分别对应于HLM的“固定斜率”和“随机斜率”,不过这里的“斜率”应理解为元分析不同Study的效应量。效应量本身可以看做是Level 1的斜率,而效应量的标准误则对应于Level 1(组内)的残差。总体来说,Meta-analysis大多采用RE模型(即HLM的随机斜率模型)。
Meta-analysis is a statistical technique for combining results from multiple independent studies, with the aim of estimating a single overall effect. The routines in this package provide facilities to conduct meta-analyses of binary (event) or continuous data from two groups, or intervention effect ...
In meta-analysis, there is an increasing trend to explicitly acknowledge the presence of study variability through random-effects models. That is, one assumes that for each study there is a study-specific effect and one is observing an estimate of this latent variable. In a random-effects model...
The first three columns of Table 3 show the results of a meta-analysis on the effect of zinc for the treatment of a common cold, published in a Cochrane review [24]. The outcome was severity of cold symptoms scoring, and was based on a total of 513 participants. The first column shows...
Quick start Perform standard RE meta-analysis by expressing it as a two-level meta-analysis model of the effect-size y with random intercepts by trial and effect-size standard errors se meta meregress y || trial:, essevariable(se) Same as above, but perform an RE meta-regression on ...