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  • Medical Statistics
  • Epidemiology

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  • Aggregate data meta-analysis typically requires studies to report means and standard errors.
  • Some studies report medians, posing challenges for traditional meta-analysis.
  • Existing methods transform medians into means, which can be suboptimal.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and evaluate novel median-based approaches for aggregate data meta-analysis.
  • To compare these new methods against transformation-based approaches.
  • To assess performance with skewed data and high inter-study variance.

Main Methods:

  • Development of two alternative median-based meta-analysis methods.
  • Simulation studies to compare median-based and transformation-based approaches.
  • Application to a meta-analysis of patient delay in tuberculosis diagnosis.

Main Results:

  • Proposed median-based approaches demonstrate superior performance compared to transformation-based methods.
  • The advantages are most pronounced with skewed data distributions.
  • Effectiveness is also evident in scenarios with high inter-study variance.

Conclusions:

  • Median-based meta-analysis offers a more robust alternative when study data are reported as medians.
  • These methods improve the accuracy of meta-analysis for non-normally distributed data.
  • The approaches are valuable for analyzing complex health outcomes like tuberculosis diagnostic delays.