Statistical methods for meta-analysis: a review and some new developments

发布时间：2021-09-02 作者：浏览次数：

Speaker:	童铁军	DateTime:	2021年9月3日上午10:00-11:00
Brief Introduction to Speaker: 童铁军，香港浸会大学。		Place:	腾讯会议（会议号请联系晏挺老师）
Abstract:Meta-analysis is a statistical technique widely used in evidence-based medicineto synthesize the research ﬁndings from multiple studies. In this talk, I will first give an overview of the history and the main procedure of conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis. I will then present some statistical challenges in meta-analysis, and provide our new developments in this direction to advance the literature. Our proposed methods not only improve the existing ones significantly but also share the same virtue of the simplicity. They are also capable to serve as ‘rules of thumb’ and will be widely applied in evidence-based medicine.