A re-evaluation of fixed effect(s) meta-analysis

• Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in society Vol. 181; no. 1; pp. 205 - 227
• Main Authors: Rice, Kenneth, Higgins, Julian P. T., Lumley, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford John Wiley & Sons Ltd 01.01.2018; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Analysis; Common effect; Fixed effect; Fixed effects; Literature reviews; Meta-analysis; Meta‐regression; Random effect; Regression analysis; Statistical analysis; Statistical methods; Weighting

Meta-analysis is a common tool for synthesizing results of multiple studies. Among methods for performing meta-analysis, the approach known as 'fixed effects' or Inverse variance weighting' is popular and widely used. A common interpretation of this method is that it assumes that the...