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Southern California-RAND Evidence-Based Practice Center
Santa Monica, CA
Sally C. Morton, Ph.D.
Task Order Director
John L. Adams, Ph.D.
Marika J. Suttorp, M.S.
Statisticians
Roberta Shanman, M.L.S.
Reference Librarian
Di Valentine, J.D.
Shannon Rhodes, M.F.A.
Assistants
Paul G. Shekelle, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Southern California-RAND
Evidence-Based Practice Center
Sally C. Morton, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Southern California-RAND
Evidence-Based Practice Center
and Senior Statistician
File Name Description Software Version File Size ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 01front.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 110KB 9 pages Contents: Title Page, Preface, Acknowledgments, Structured Abstract, Table of Contents ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 02summ.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 76KB 5 pages Contents: Summary: Introduction, Methodology, Findings, Conclusions from a Statistical Perspective, Conclusions from a Nonstatistical Perspective, Alternative Medicine Meta-analysis ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 03chap1.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 82KB 5 pages Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Heterogeneity, Meta-regression, Report Outline ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 04chap2.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 68KB 2 pages Contents: Chapter 2. Methodology: Systematic Review to Identify Meta-regression Publications, Common Statistical Notation Objective, Simulation Approach, Panel Methodology ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 05chap3.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 354KB 16 pages Contents: Chapter 3. Results: Article Retrieval Results, Common Notation, Simulation Set-up, Panel Recommendations, Simulation Results ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 06tbl1.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 28KB 1 page Contents: Table 1. Distribution of Identified Meta-regression Publications ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 07tbl2.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 45KB 1 page Contents: Table 2. Simulation Parameters ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 08tbl3.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 28KB 1 page Contents: Table 3. Example of Data Layout for Logistic Meta-regression ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 09tbl4.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 41KB 1 page Contents: Table 4. Simulation Results Tables ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10tbl5.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 46KB 1 page Contents: Table 5. Percent bias in gamma-0 associated with the gamma-3 by tilt interaction ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11tbl6.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 48KB 1 page Contents: Table 6. Percent bias in gamma-0 associated with the sigma-xi by gamma-3 interaction ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12tbl7.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 51KB 1 page Contents: Table 7. Percent bias in gamma-0 associated with the gamma-2 by k interaction ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13tbl8.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 51KB 1 page Contents: Table 8. Percent bias in gamma-0 associated with the gamma-1 by phi interaction ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14tbl9.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 53KB 1 page Contents: Table 9. Percent bias in gamma-0 associated with the gamma-3 by phi interaction ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15tbl10.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 50KB 1 page Contents: Table 10. Percent bias in gamma-0 associated with the gamma-2 by phi interaction ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16chap4.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 66KB 2 pages Contents: Chapter 4. Conclusions ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17refs.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 67KB 2 pages Contents: References ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18biblio.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 42KB 6 pages Contents: Bibliography ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19appa.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 22KB 2 pages Contents: Appendix A. Expert Panel and Acknowledgements ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20appb.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 20KB 1 page Contents: Appendix B. List of Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center Attendees at the Expert Panel Meeting ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21appc.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 20KB 1 page Contents: Appendix C. Expert Panel Meeting Agenda ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22appd.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 25KB 1 page Contents: Appendix D. Objectives and Key Questions of the Expert Panel Meeting ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23appe.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2002 55KB 10 pages Contents: Appendix E. Responses to Referees ________________________________________________________________________________________________
AHRQ Publication No. 04-0033
Current as of March 2004
Internet Citation:
Meta-regression Approaches: What, Why, When, and How? File Inventory, Technical Review Number 8. AHRQ Publication No. 04-0033, March 2004. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/metareginv.htm
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