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  • Biostatistics
  • Medical Research Methodology

Background:

  • Traditional random effects meta-analysis assumes normally distributed treatment effects.
  • Normality misspecification can lead to biased estimates of overall treatment effects and heterogeneity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel random effects meta-analysis model using Box-Cox transformation.
  • To address issues arising from non-normal random effects distributions in meta-analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Applied Box-Cox transformation to observed treatment effect estimates to normalize the overall distribution.
  • Utilized a Bayesian approach for parameter estimation.
  • Suggested summarizing results with median, interquartile range, and prediction intervals.

Main Results:

  • Simulation studies indicated that the proposed model reduces issues with skewed treatment effect distributions compared to the normal random effects model.
  • Illustrative examples showed differences in summary results, heterogeneity measures, and prediction intervals.

Conclusions:

  • The Box-Cox transformed random effects meta-analysis offers a robust tool for evaluating traditional meta-analysis results against skewed data.
  • Further critical evaluation of this method is warranted.