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The Freeman–Tukey double arcsine transformation for the meta-analysis of proportions: Recent criticisms were seriously misleading
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2021 , Other)
Pooling of proportions in meta-analysis are used to get better and more precise estimates of disease frequency, including cumulative incidence or prevalence. Meta-analysis is of course only useful when there are a limited ...
Double-zero-event studies matter: A re-evaluation of physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection for preventing person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 and its policy impact
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Other)
In a recent timely systematic review, Chu et al. [1] assessed the effectiveness of face masks, eye protection, and physical distancing for preventing COVID-19. Because the sample sizes are not large, especially in some ...
Information on harm outcomes was insufficiently reported in systematic reviews and meta-analyses of individual participant data
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2021 , Other)
Meta-analysis is an important tool for summarizing findings from scientific research. But for harm outcomes,issues may arise due to the distribution problems, zero-events problems, as well as low statistical power. Individual ...