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Meta-analysis and other statistical methods

Meta-analysis and other statistical methods
Meta-analysis and other statistical methods

Demonstration of new random-effects methods in RevMan [January 2025]  *Methods Support Unit web clinic*
Professor Jo McKenzie, Head of the Methods in Evidence Synthesis Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Areti-Angeliki Veroniki, Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. Co-Convenor, Cochrane Statistical Methods Group.
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Introduction to new random-effects methods in RevMan [October 2024]  *Methods Support Unit web clinic*
Professor Jo McKenzie, Head of the Methods in Evidence Synthesis Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Areti-Angeliki Veroniki, Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. Co-Convenor, Cochrane Statistical Methods Group.
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Introduction to analysis and meta-analysis of interrupted time series studies with continuous outcomes [July 2024]
Dr Elizabeth Korevaar, Methods in Synthesis Unit, Monash University, Australia
Dr Simon Turner, Methods in Synthesis Unit, Monash University, Australia
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Updated guidance on how to interpret and assess imprecision with GRADE methods [January 2024]  *Methods Support Unit web clinic*
Leslie Choi, Evidence Synthesis Development Editor, Cochrane. 
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Identifying who benefits most from treatments: estimating interactions and subgroup effects in aggregate data meta-analysis [January 2024]
Dr Peter Godolphin, Senior Research Fellow, Meta-analysis programme, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, University College London, UK
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Dealing with rare events in Cochrane reviews [November 2023]   *Methods Support Unit web clinic*
Afroditi Kanellopoulou, Statistics Editor, Methods Support Unit.
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How can the framework for prospective, adaptive meta-analysis (FAME) be used to improve the quality of Cochrane reviews? [August 2023]  *Methods Support Unit web clinic*
Professor Jayne Tierney & Sarah Burdett, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL, London
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Handling heterogeneity in Cochrane reviews [April 2023]  *Methods Support Unit web clinic*
Afroditi Kanellopoulou & Sofia Tsokani, Statistics Editors, Methods Support Unit. 
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Performing meta-analyses in the case of very few studies [January 2023]
Prof. Dr. Ralf Bender, Head of the Department of Medical Biometry Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany
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Assessing imprecision and inconsistency in GRADE [December 2022]  *Methods Support Unit web clinic*
Leslie Choi, Evidence Synthesis Development Editor, Cochrane
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Development of materials to facilitate implementation of methods for presentation and statistical synthesis when data are not amenable to meta-analysis [November 2022]  *Methods Support Unit web clinic*
Joanne McKenzie, Simon Turner & Sue Brennan, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia.
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Interpretation of subgroup analyses [October 2022]  *Methods Support Unit web clinic*
Marty Chaplin, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Quantiles of the marginal and conditional dose-response relation based on weighted mixed-effects models [March 2022]
Nicola Orsini, PhD, Senior Researcher, Associate Professor of Medical Statistics, Dept Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet. Advisory Board of Cochrane Sweden. 
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An introduction to prospective meta-analysis (PMA) [September 2021]
Dr Anna Lene Seidler & Kylie Hunter, Associate Convenors, Cochrane Prospective Meta-Analysis Methods Group
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Meta-analysis of joint longitudinal and time-to-event data *Statistical Methods Group webinar* [October 2019]
Maria Sudell, MRC Skills Development Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool
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Practical methods for handling missing summary statistics in meta-analysis of continuous outcomes [February 2019] *Statistical Methods Group webinar* 
Chris Weir, Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit Statistics Group, University of Edinburgh, UK
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Improving GRADE ‘Summary of findings’ tables for Cochrane Reviews: Detailed guidance for the calculation of absolute effect from time-to-event data [December 2018]
Dr Nicole Skoetz, Senior Editor Cochrane Cancer
Dr Elvira van Dalen, Epidemiologist at the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
Marius Goldkuhle, Research Associate at Cochrane Haematological Malignancies Group
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An Introduction to Individual Patient Data meta-analysis [November 2018]
Dr Sarah Nevitt, Statistical Editor of the Cochrane Epilepsy Group
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Methods to estimate the between-study variance and to calculate uncertainty in the estimated overall effect size [October 2018]
Dr Areti Angeliki Veroniki, convenor of the Cochrane Statistical Methods Group
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Meta-analysis of time-to-event data *Statistical Methods Group webinar* [July 2018]
Catrin Tudur Smith, Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, UK; Co-convenor of Cochrane Statistical Methods Group
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Allowing for uncertainty due to missing outcome data in meta-analysis *Statistical Methods Group webinar*[June 2018]
Dimitris Mavridis, Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
Anna Chaimani, Centre de Recherche Epidemiologie et Statistique Sorbonne Paris Cite (CRESS-UMR1153), Inserm / Universite Paris Descartes
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Common errors in meta-analysis – lessons from the Cochrane review screening programme *Statistical Methods Group webinar* [November 2017]
Dr Kerry Dwan, Statistical Editor, Cochrane Editorial Unit
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Statistical methods for updating meta-analyses *Statistical Methods Group webinar* [October 2017]
Mark Simmonds, Research Fellow at the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, UK
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An argument-based approach to aggregation of evidence involving multiple outcome indicators [October 2016]
Anthony Hunter, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University College London
Matt Williams, Consultant Oncologist, Charing Cross Hospital / Imperial College London
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