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Bakbergenuly, Ilyas; Hoaglin, David C.; Kulinskaya, Elena – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
In random-effects meta-analysis the between-study variance ([tau][superscript 2]) has a key role in assessing heterogeneity of study-level estimates and combining them to estimate an overall effect. For odds ratios the most common methods suffer from bias in estimating [tau][superscript 2] and the overall effect and produce confidence intervals…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Statistical Bias, Intervals, Sample Size