Objectives Some studies have reported a possible association between exposure to tumour
necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors and an increased risk of melanoma. The aim of this study …

For random effects meta‐analysis, seven different estimators of the heterogeneity variance
are compared and assessed using a simulation study. The seven estimators are the …

Current demand for accountability and efficiency of healthcare organizations, combined with
the greater availability of routine data on clinical care and outcomes, has led to an increased …

This report is part of a series of activities to review and assess methods for exploratory
spatial data analysis and spatial statistics as they pertain to the study of the geography of …

Several new estimators of the between-study variability in a heterogeneous random effects
meta-analysis model are derived. One is the unbiased statistic which is locally optimal for …

Providing reliable information on an intervention effect, meta-analysis is a powerful statistical
tool for analyzing and combining results from individual studies. Meta-Analysis of Binary …

Recent changes in individual units are often of interest when monitoring and assessing the
performance of healthcare providers. We consider three high profile examples:(a) annual …

This paper focuses on a development of a classification model that gives an accurate
placement of regions into classes of the relative risk of crimes over time. The analysis was …

Zusammenfassung Die Inanspruchnahme von Gesundheitsleistungen weist grosse
regionale Unterschiede auf. Der Schweizer Versorgungsatlas (www. versorgungsatlas. ch) …

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 …