The art and science of meta‐analysis, the combination of results from multiple independent
studies, is now more than a century old. In the last 30 years, however, as the need for …

Objectives. Widespread use of increasingly complex statistical methods makes it ever more
challenging to adequately assess the results reported and conclusions drawn in meta …

This article examines the concept of assay sensitivity in clinical research. Defined as the
ability of a clinical trial to distinguish between an effective and ineffective treatment, the need …

The ethics of pill placebo and placebo psychotherapy conditions in clinical research are
controversial. Even when not life threatening, mental disorders dramatically diminish the …

Heterogeneity in meta-analysis can be caused by chance, methodological or clinical
variations between the included primary studies. To identify a clinical variable as a cause of …

In the first half of this dissertation, I develop a heuristic methodology for analyzing scientific
solutions to the problem of underdetermination. Heuristics are rough-and-ready procedures …

Meta-analysis is a statistical technique of performing integrated analyses by combining
results of several independent studies to answer specific questions. In fact, any time we …

Als junger Student nahm ich im Zuge der Zweiten Europäischen Ökumenischen
Versammlung 1997 in Graz an einem ökumenischen Gottesdienst auf der …

Curriculum Vitae Page 1 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Curriculum Vitae December 2013 Xin
Ming Tu, Ph.D. Office Address: Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology University …