... risk assessment Meta- Analysis The technique of quantitatively combining, synthesizing, and summarizing dataand results from different studies is known as meta- analysis (Putzrath and Ginevan 1991; ... Doses 42 12 Raw Data for Weighting and Combining Using Meta- analysis 59 13 R, R2, Slope and Y-intercept Values Combined From Like Plant-Metal Groups and the Number of Studies in ... from exposure to Pb, Cd, or Zn A more in-depth metaanalysis (multiple-regression and nonlinear curve-fitting) and an upgrade in data reporting standards are recommended DEDICATION This work is...
... in the meta- analysis [16-21] Three of the six trials reported data for years follow-up, other three studies followed up for year, years and 7.6 years respectively All six studies were randomized, ... studies, i.v four studies, i.d and s.c five studies, i.v and i.d three studies, and intralymphatic/intranodal two studies In a post hoc analysis, The CBR ranged between 19.7% and 34% regardless of the ... colorectal cancer and suspected minimal residual colorectal cancer: a meta- analysisand system review Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:17 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take...
... Authors' contributions: BD and WH carried out to study design and RCTs assessment WH, RWW and BD carried out dataanalysisand manuscript writing QYT, YGJ, YGL, JHZ and YH participated in writing ... lung function, gas exchange and DLCO% a nd 6MWD on the 3rd , 6th and 12th month We conducted meta- analysis from six RCTs regarding lung function, gas exchange and DLCO% and 6MWD on the 3rd , 6th ... using meta- analysisand systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) Methods: Eight RCTs published from 1999 to 2010 were identified and synthesized to compare the efficacy and safety...
... was no evidence of publicationbias (P = 0.558 for publicationbias of MspI and P = 0.722 for publicationbias of exon 7) Discussion CYP genes are large families of endoplasmic and cytosolic enzymes ... study in the meta- analysis was omitted to reflect the influence of the individual dataset on the pooled OR [16] Potential publication biases were estimated by funnel plot, in which the standard error ... (OR = 1.0) 3.4 Publicationbias Begg’s funnel plot and Egger’s test were performed to identify any publicationbias The funnel plots did not exhibit any patent asymmetry (Figure 10 and 11) By Egger’s...
... selection biasand non-comparability of the study subjects No data were located for comparing R-CHOP vs R-CVP for relapsed patients with follicular lymphoma, and no data for previously treated and ... “R-CVP”, “Rituximab”, and “R-CHOP” articles and abstract from published and unpublished data were reviewed and screened as potentially relevant ASH abstract and prospective trial were excluded: Neither ... 2.51 – 11.83) and 5.54 (95% CI: 2.69 – 11.40), for the first and second analyses, respectively Discussion Data from all four trials were collected and the response rates (CR, PR, and CR+PR) yielded...
... transplant) and 2007 to evaluate the effectiveness of pretransplant tuberculosis skin testing and LTBI treatment, the prevalence and outcome of MTB infections, and the effects of patient factors and ... (1/1945 to 12/ 2006), BIOSIS (1/1969 to 12/2006), and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Central Register of Controlled Trials and manually searched retrieved bibliographies to identify ... logistic regression analysis The Hosmer and Lemeshow statistics for overall mortality (P ϭ 0.33) and MTB-specific mortality (P ϭ 0.93) models support the models’ adequacy for the data Abbreviations:...
... Table and Figure 1) We further performed stratified analysis according to asthma type (atopic asthma and non-atopic asthma), age (children and adult) and ethnicity (Asian and Caucasian and African ... provide diagnosis of publicationbias (Linear regression analysis, ref [21]) All analysis was done by using the Statistical Analysis System software (v.9.1.3, SAS Institute, Cary, NC) and Review Manage ... (777 cases and 495 controls); case-control studies of age (1894 cases and 1766 controls) and case-control studies of ethnicity (1894 cases and 1766 controls) were available for this meta- analysis...
... [30, 31] Publicationbias is always a concern in meta- analysis The presence of publicationbias indicates that nonsignificant or negative findings remain unpublished To test for publication bias, ... Publicationbias may be always a possible limitation of combining data from various sources as in a meta- analysis The idea of adjusting the results of meta- analyses for publicationbiasand imputing ... Minder C Bias in meta- analysis detected by a simple, graphical test BMJ 1997; 315: 629-34 34 Sutton AJ, Duval SJ, Tweedie RL, et al Empirical assessment of effect of publicationbias on meta- analyses...
... the study, the data collection method, instruments as well as process of data collection anddataanalysis IV Dataanalysisand discussion This focuses on presenting, analyzing and discussing ... the data obtained from the survey questionnaires 28 CHAPTER IV- DATAANALYSISAND DISCUSSION 4.1.Questionnaires 4.1.1 Dataanalysis of the students’ experiment questionnaires 4.1.1.1 Dataanalysis ... methods of data collection andanalysis in order to maximize its vavidity and reliability This claim would be subtaintiated in this as the participants, the instruments as well as the data analysis...
... addition to traditional meta- analysis estimators, we use also the bootstrap and clustered data analysis, as well as Fixed and Random Effects meta- regression models Our meta- analysis derives several ... applications of meta- analysis to political science (Lau 1999 and Roscoe and Jenkins 2005) and political economy (Nijkamp and Poot 2004 and Doucouliagos and Ulubasoglu 2006) Meta- analysis considers ... Section discusses the meta- analysis methodology adopted in this paper Section discusses the data used Section is the heart of the paper, presenting meta- analysisand meta- regression analysis results...
... oils’’ ‘‘(1) AND (2)’’ OR ‘‘(1) AND (3)’’ OR ‘‘(1) AND (4)’’ OR ‘‘(1) AND (5)’’ 0174 January 2007 | Volume | Issue | e20 Tobacco and Biomass Smoke and TB Figure Flow Diagram of Study Steps and Exclusions ... smoking Current and former smoking Current and former tobacco smoking and use of biomass cooking fuels Current and former tobacco smoking Current and former tobacco smoking Current and former tobacco ... Peto, N Shetty, and M Tipayamongkholgul) of this study for helping with data collection Author contributions HHL, ME, and MM conceived of the study and devised the search andanalysis strategies...
... sensitivity and specificity) and because substantial between-study heterogeneity is common, meta- analysis of diagnostic accuracy requires different and more complex methods than traditional meta- analytic ... random effects regression and HSROC analyses, we used the user-written ‘‘metandi’’ program for Stata [31] Data Synthesis and Meta- Analysis Multiple sources of heterogeneity frequently exist when summarizing ... hierarchical regression approach to metaanalysis of diagnostic test accuracy evaluations Stat Med 2001; 20: 2865–84 31 Harbord R, Whiting P Metandi: meta- analysis of diagnostic accuracy using...
... kinases JAK1 and tyrosine kinase (TYK2) are activated in response to ligand binding to the receptor, and these kinases phosphorylate signal transducers and activators of transcription STAT1 and STAT2 ... necessary and sufficient to reproduce the observed kinetic data (Fig 3C) Hence, our analysis identified IRF9 as crucial for both rapid and efficient IFNa-mediated signal transduction, and suggests ... Hansjorg Hauser and Didier ¨ ´ ´ ´ Trono (Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne EPFL, Lab of virology and genetics, Switzerland) for 4752 the supplied reagents We thank Sandra Manthey and Maria...
... 381 45 Summarizing Data with Database Statistical Functions 387 46 Filtering Dataand Removing Duplicates 395 47 Consolidating Data ... to Random Variables 509 63 The Binomial, Hypergeometric, and Negative Binomial Random Variables 515 64 The Poisson and Exponential Random ... Lange of Eli Lilly, Pat Keating and Doug Hoppe of Cisco Systems, and Dennis Fuller of the U.S Army also helped me refine my thoughts on teaching dataanalysisand modeling with Excel I was blessed...
... pollination meta- analysis (not shown) as well as the rank correlation test (r ¼ 0.081; P ¼ 0.567) indicate no publication biases Moreover, the fail-safe number calculated for this separate meta- analysis ... ecological meta- analyses Ecology, 80, 1142–1149 Reviews and Syntheses Gurevitch, J & Hedges, L.V (2001) Meta- analysis: combining the results of independent experiments In: Design andAnalysis ... application of biological models in meta- analysis Am Nat., 150, 798–812 Palmer, A.R (1999) Detecting publicationbias in meta- analyses: a case study of fluctuating asymmetry and sexual selection Am Nat.,...
... interaction database andanalysis system It holds interaction data, maintains annotation standards and provides search andanalysis software (Hermjakob et al., 2004b) There are over 27 000 proteins and ... fundamental DataAnalysisand Visualization in Genomics and Proteomics Edited by Francisco Azuaje and Joaquin Dopazo # 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., ISBN 0-470-09439-7 INTEGRATIVE DATAANALYSISAND VISUALIZATION ... (a) how dataanalysis techniques can facilitate more comprehensive, user-friendly data visualization tasks and (b) how data visualization methods may make dataanalysis a more meaningful and biologically...
... Estate Investment DataAnalysisand Decision Making Private Real Estate Investment DataAnalysisand Decision Making Roger J Brown, PhD Director of Research Real Estate and Land Use Institute ... selecting ‘‘Customer Support’’ and then ‘‘Obtaining Permissions.’’ Library of Congress Cataloging-in -Publication Data British Library Cataloguing in PublicationData ISBN: 0-12-137751-2 ISBN: ... decision-making for consumers and researchers in market economies of any country interested in land use and real estate investment Empirical risk analysis improves the understanding of markets in general...
... Mann-Whitney Rank Analysis 152 Section Comparison of Strategies 154 Chapter Analysisand Results Section Data Source, Population, Variables, Software 160 Section Standard Data Envelopment Analysis of ... based on (and here introduce) the method of data envelopment analysis (DEA) Data envelopment analysis is the basic analytical tool employed in this investigation (i) to evaluate strategies and (ii) ... mutual funds pursuing those strategies and reporting five years of data from 1993 through 1997 A standard data envelopment analysis of the performance data for the mutual funds in the two strategic...