Meta-Analysis
Meta-Analysis This book focuses on performing hands-on meta-analysis using MetaXL, a free add-on to MS Excel. The book adopts a step-by-step approach to perform meta-analyses and interpret the…
Specifikacia Meta-Analysis
Meta-Analysis
This book focuses on performing hands-on meta-analysis using MetaXL, a free add-on to MS Excel. The book adopts a step-by-step approach to perform meta-analyses and interpret the results. The illustrative examples are taken mainly from medical and health sciences studies, but the generic methods can be used to perform meta-analysis on data from any other discipline.
In addition to the commonly used meta-analytic methods for various effect size measures, the book includes special topics such as meta-regression, network meta-analysis, Stata codes for meta-analyses are also provided.All popularly used meta-analytic methods and models - such as the fixed effect model, random effects model, inverse variance heterogeneity model, and quality effect model - are used to find the confidence interval for the effect size measure of independent primary studies and the pooled study.