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Migliavaca, Celina Borges; Stein, Cinara; Colpani, Verônica; Barker, Timothy Hugh; Ziegelmann, Patricia Klarmann; Munn, Zachary; Falavigna, Maicon – Research Synthesis Methods, 2022
Over the last decade, there has been a 10-fold increase in the number of published systematic reviews of prevalence. In meta-analyses of prevalence, the summary estimate represents an average prevalence from included studies. This estimate is truly informative only if there is no substantial heterogeneity among the different contexts being pooled.…
Descriptors: Incidence, Meta Analysis, Statistics, Statistical Distributions