期刊: RESEARCH SYNTHESIS METHODS, 2021; 12 (5)
A reference interval provides a basis for physicians to determine whether a measurement is typical of a healthy individual. It can be interpreted as a......
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The author should give careful consideration to the study eligibility criteria of systematic reviews (SRs) and follow it after review protocol develop......
期刊: RESEARCH SYNTHESIS METHODS, 2020; 11 (3)
Background During systematic reviews, "data abstraction" refers to the process of collecting data from reports of studies. The data abstractors' level......
期刊: RESEARCH SYNTHESIS METHODS, 2020; 11 (5)
Meta-analyses of clinical trials typically focus on one outcome at a time. However, treatment decision-making depends on an overall assessment of outc......
期刊: RESEARCH SYNTHESIS METHODS, 2020; 11 (5)
When reporting the results of clinical studies, some researchers may choose the five-number summary (including the sample median, the first and third ......
期刊: RESEARCH SYNTHESIS METHODS, 2020; 11 (1)
Pathway-based differential expression analysis allows the incorporation of biological domain knowledge into transcriptomics analysis to enhance our un......
期刊: RESEARCH SYNTHESIS METHODS, 2017; 8 (3)
This paper studies the influence diagnostics in meta-regression model including case deletion diagnostic and local influence analysis. We derive the s......