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Diagnostic statistical procedures in medical meta-analyses
1Department of Statistics and School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Statistics in Medicine
|September 4, 1999
Abstract:
The number of published meta-analyses in medicine has had phenomenal growth, to a point where over 300 meta-analyses in medicine are published yearly. Because meta-analyses tend to lead to policy decisions, it is extremely important that the analyses be robust and that alternative analyses yield consistent results. We herein provide a discussion of diagnostic statistical procedures.