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Ferdinand Valentin Stoye; Claudia Tschammler; Oliver Kuss; Annika Hoyer – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
The development of new statistical models for the meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies is still an ongoing field of research, especially with respect to summary receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. In the recently published updated version of the "Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Accuracy, Barriers, Models
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Jona Lilienthal; Sibylle Sturtz; Christoph Schürmann; Matthias Maiworm; Christian Röver; Tim Friede; Ralf Bender – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
In Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis, the use of weakly informative prior distributions is of particular benefit in cases where only a few studies are included, a situation often encountered in health technology assessment (HTA). Suggestions for empirical prior distributions are available in the literature but it is unknown whether these are…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Meta Analysis, Health Sciences, Technology