Meta-analysis for psychiatric research using free software R

SUMMARY: This paper provides a brief overview of meta-analysis (MA) with emphasis on classical fixedeffects and random-effects MA models. It illustrates the application of MA models with the open-source software R using publicly available data from five studies on lamotrigine to treat bipolar depres...

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Autor principal: CHEN, Ding-Geng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Publishing 2015
Materias:
Biostatistics in Psychiatry (27)
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26300603
http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.215063
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description SUMMARY: This paper provides a brief overview of meta-analysis (MA) with emphasis on classical fixedeffects and random-effects MA models. It illustrates the application of MA models with the open-source software R using publicly available data from five studies on lamotrigine to treat bipolar depression and finds that meta-analysis identifies a statistically significant advantage of lamotrigine over placebo that was not evident in the individual studies.  :  
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spelling pubmed-45268342015-08-21 Meta-analysis for psychiatric research using free software R CHEN, Ding-Geng Shanghai Arch Psychiatry Biostatistics in Psychiatry (27) SUMMARY: This paper provides a brief overview of meta-analysis (MA) with emphasis on classical fixedeffects and random-effects MA models. It illustrates the application of MA models with the open-source software R using publicly available data from five studies on lamotrigine to treat bipolar depression and finds that meta-analysis identifies a statistically significant advantage of lamotrigine over placebo that was not evident in the individual studies.  :   Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Publishing 2015-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4526834/ /pubmed/26300603 http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.215063 Text en Copyright © 2015 by Editorial Department of the Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
spellingShingle Biostatistics in Psychiatry (27)
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title_full Meta-analysis for psychiatric research using free software R
title_fullStr Meta-analysis for psychiatric research using free software R
title_full_unstemmed Meta-analysis for psychiatric research using free software R
title_short Meta-analysis for psychiatric research using free software R
title_sort meta-analysis for psychiatric research using free software r
topic Biostatistics in Psychiatry (27)
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26300603
http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.215063
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