Predictive distributions for between-study heterogeneity and simple methods for their application in Bayesian meta-analysis

By Rebecca M. Turner, Dan Jackson, Yinghui Wei, S. Thompson, Julian P. T. Higgins. Statistics in Medicine, 2014

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Numerous meta‐analyses in healthcare research combine results from only a small number of studies, for which the variance representing between‐study heterogeneity is estimated imprecisely. A Bayesian approach to estimation allows external evidence on the expected magnitude of heterogeneity to be incorporated.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistics and Probability

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