2022年7月26日 · Multivariate meta-analysis allows the joint synthesis of multiple outcomes accounting for their correlation. This enables borrowing of strength (BoS) across outcomes, which may lead to greater efficiency and even different conclusions compared to separate univariate meta-analyses.

Multivariate meta-analysis is becoming increasingly popular and official routines or self-programmed functions have been included in many statistical software. In this article, we review the statistical methods and the related software for multivariate meta-analysis.

2017年9月13日 · In this article, the authors describe the key concepts and assumptions of these methods, outline how correlated and indirect evidence arises, and illustrate the contribution of such evidence in real clinical examples involving multiple outcomes and multiple treatments.

2022年8月1日 · We do so by introducing MLMVmeta—an easy-to-use web application that implements multilevel multivariate meta-analytic methodology that is both specially tailored to contemporary psychological research and easily estimable, interpretable, and parsimonious—and illustrating it across three case studies.

2021年7月18日 · Multivariate meta-analysis (MVMA) incorporates outcome correlation and synthesises direct evidence and related outcome estimates within a single analysis. In a series of meta-analyses from the critically ill literature, the current study contrasts multiple univariate effect estimates and their precision with those derived from MVMA.

Multivariate meta-analysis is an extension that can combine esti-mates of several related parameters (van Houwelingen, Arends, and Stijnen 2003). In such work, it is important to allow for heterogeneity between studies, usually by fitting a random-effects model (Thompson 1994).

Multivariate meta-analysis represents a promising statistical tool in several research areas. Here we provide a brief overview of the application of this methodology to combining complex multi-parameterized relationships, such as non-linear or delayed associations, in multi-site studies.

2012年1月23日 · Multivariate meta-analysis is becoming increasingly popular and official routines or self-programmed functions have been included in many statistical software. In this article, we review the statistical methods and the related software for multivariate meta-analysis.

2011年9月10日 · We describe the areas of application that multivariate meta-analysis has found, the methods available, the difficulties typically encountered and the arguments for and against the multivariate methods, using four representative but contrasting examples.

2000年1月1日 · Multivariate meta-analysis is the synthesis of studies that may report several related outcomes--a common occurrence in modern social-science research. Glass developed the idea of meta-analysis in order to make sense of the results of …