Meta‐analyses have been increasingly used to synthesize proportions (eg, disease
prevalence) from multiple studies in recent years. Arcsine‐based transformations, especially …

Epidemiologic research often involves meta-analyses of proportions. Conventional two-step
methods first transform each study's proportion and subsequently perform a meta-analysis …

The meta-analysis of single proportions has become a popular application over the last two
decades. Especially, systematic reviews of prevalence studies are conducted in various …

Background Meta-analyses have become an essential tool in synthesizing evidence on
clinical and epidemiological questions derived from a multitude of similar studies assessing …

This article describes the new meta-analysis command metaan, which can be used to
perform fixed-or random-effects meta-analysis. Besides the standard DerSimonian and Laird …

In recent years, a growing number of researchers have attempted to overcome the
constraints of size and scope in different medical studies to find out the overall treatment …

The modified method for random‐effects meta‐analysis, usually attributed to Hartung and
Knapp and also proposed by Sidik and Jonkman, is easy to implement and is becoming …

Modern meta-analyses do more than combine the effect sizes of a series of similar studies.
The term “meta” in meta-analysis can be interpreted as “beyond”, and meta-analyses are …

For meta‐analysis of studies that report outcomes as binomial proportions, the most popular
measure of effect is the odds ratio (OR), usually analyzed as log (OR). Many meta‐analyses …

This book was written to fill the gap that exists in the methods of epidemiology of interest to
clinical researchers. It will enable a reader who is currently undertaking research to get key …