ABSTRACT

Providing reliable information on an intervention effect, meta-analysis is a powerful statistical tool for analyzing and combining results from individual studies. Meta-Analysis of Binary Data Using Profile Likelihood focuses on the analysis and modeling of a meta-analysis with individually pooled data (MAIPD). It presents a unifying approac

chapter 1|22 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

The basic model

chapter 3|14 pages

Modeling unobserved heterogeneity

chapter 4|20 pages

Modeling covariate information

chapter 5|18 pages

Alternative approaches

chapter 7|18 pages

Working with CAMAP

chapter 9|18 pages

Quantification of heterogeneity in a MAIPD