A simple method to estimate prediction intervals and predictive distributions: Summarizing meta‐analyses beyond means and confidence intervals

Published: Apr 3, 2019
Abstract
A systematic review and meta-analysis is an important step in evidence synthesis. The current paradigm for meta-analyses requires a presentation of the means under a random-effects model; however, a mean with a confidence interval provides an incomplete summary of the underlying heterogeneity in meta-analysis. Prediction intervals show the range of true effects in future studies and have been advocated to be regularly presented. Most commonly,...
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Title
A simple method to estimate prediction intervals and predictive distributions: Summarizing meta‐analyses beyond means and confidence intervals
Published Date
Apr 3, 2019
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