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Domínguez Islas, Clara; Rice, Kenneth M. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2022
Bayesian methods seem a natural choice for combining sources of evidence in meta-analyses. However, in practice, their sensitivity to the choice of prior distribution is much less attractive, particularly for parameters describing heterogeneity. A recent non-Bayesian approach to fixed-effects meta-analysis provides novel ways to think about…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Evidence, Meta Analysis, Statistical Inference