Methods to estimate the between‐study variance and its uncertainty in meta‐analysis

Angeliki Veroniki, Areti; Jackson, Dan; Viechtbauer, Wolfgang; Bender, Ralf; Bowden, Jack; Knapp, Guido; Kuß, Oliver; P. T. Higgins, Julian; Langan, Dean; Salanti, Georgia

doi:10.1002/jrsm.1164

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Methods to estimate the between‐study variance and its uncertainty in meta‐analysis

Published in Research Synthesis Methods • Sep 2, 2015

Authors:

Areti Angeliki Veroniki

Dan Jackson

Wolfgang Viechtbauer

Abstract

Meta-analyses are typically used to estimate the overall/mean of an outcome of interest. However, inference about between-study variability, which is typically modelled using a between-study variance parameter, is usually an additional aim. The DerSimonian and Laird method, currently widely used by ...

Subject

Meta-analysis

Variance (accounting)

Econometrics

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