metaan: Random-effects meta-analysis

Evangelos Kontopantelis () and David Reeves ()
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Evangelos Kontopantelis: University of Manchester
David Reeves: University of Manchester

Stata Journal, 2010, vol. 10, issue 3, 395-407

Abstract: This article describes the new meta-analysis command metaan, which can be used to perform fixed- or random-effects meta-analysis. Besides the stan- dard DerSimonian and Laird approach, metaan offers a wide choice of available models: maximum likelihood, profile likelihood, restricted maximum likelihood, and a permutation model. The command reports a variety of heterogeneity mea- sures, including Cochran’s Q, I2, HM2 , and the between-studies variance estimate τb2. A forest plot and a graph of the maximum likelihood function can also be generated.

Keywords: metaan; meta-analysis; random effect; effect size; maximum likelihood; profile likelihood; restricted maximum likelihood; REML; permutation model; forest plot (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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