title: Diagnostic statistical procedures in medical meta-analyses.
abstract: The number of published meta-analyses in medicine has had phenomenal growth, to a point where over 300 meta-analyses in medicine are published yearly. Because meta-analyses tend to lead to policy decisions, it is extremely important that the analyses be robust and that alternative analyses yield consistent results. We herein provide a discussion of diagnostic statistical procedures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics and School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Olkin
mesh_terms: D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D003657:Decision Making; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012306:Risk; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity