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Siegel, Lianne; Chu, Haitao – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
Reference intervals, or reference ranges, aid medical decision-making by containing a pre-specified proportion (e.g., 95%) of the measurements in a representative healthy population. We recently proposed three approaches for estimating a reference interval from a meta-analysis based on a random effects model: a frequentist approach, a Bayesian…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Meta Analysis, Intervals, Decision Making
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Lin, Lifeng; Chu, Haitao – Research Synthesis Methods, 2018
In medical sciences, a disease condition is typically associated with multiple risk and protective factors. Although many studies report results of multiple factors, nearly all meta-analyses separately synthesize the association between each factor and the disease condition of interest. The collected studies usually report different subsets of…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Multivariate Analysis, Meta Analysis, Correlation