Titlebook: Epidemiological Practices in Research on Small Effects; Hans Hoffmeister,Moyses Szklo,Michael Thamm Conference proceedings 1998 Springer-V

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Small effects: Subgroup analysis and interaction,subgroups. Also in situations where the effect in the entire study population, sometimes referred to as the main effect, is absent or small, is it common practice to continue with subgroup analysis. One rationale for looking at effects in subgroups is that there may be segments of the population in

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Is meta-analysis a valid approach to the evaluation of small effects?, also been applied to the quantitative description of how an effect and its determinants may vary among studies. That aspect of meta-analysis is not considered here). Meta-analysis was introduced into medical research about a decade ago. There has been an explosive growth in its use, particularly in

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Commentary on meta-analysis,ysis survives in epidemiology. I think his critique represents a necessary corrective action that we see in the development of any new method. Perhaps I should spare you my first thousand words and summarise his talk with a picture. I believe what he was essentially saying was that meta-analysis of

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Publication bias,rested in data collection issues in relation to systematic reviews and meta-analysis. A meta-analysis is an observational study, where the study population comprises of studies and not people. As such, it has many of the same problems that any observational study has, even when the studies included

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