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Direct linkQi, Hongchao; Rizopoulos, Dimitris; Rosmalen, Joost – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
The meta-analytic-predictive (MAP) approach is a Bayesian method to incorporate historical controls in new trials that aims to increase the statistical power and reduce the required sample size. Here we investigate how to calculate the sample size of the new trial when historical data is available, and the MAP approach is used in the analysis. In…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Computation, Meta Analysis, Bayesian Statistics
Stockard, Jean; Wood, Timothy W. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
Most evaluators have embraced the goal of evidence-based practice (EBP). Yet, many have criticized EBP review systems that prioritize randomized control trials and use various criteria to limit the studies examined. They suggest this could produce policy recommendations based on small, unrepresentative segments of the literature and recommend a…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Criticism, Randomized Controlled Trials
