Dear Nick
One useful place might be the Cochrane Reviews Methodology database
which is part of the Cochrane Library collection of databases. This is
an excellent collection of abstracts to methdology papers about the
conduct of systematic reviews.
Julie Glanville
> Nick Adams wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
>
> I'm currently doing a series of systematic reviews concerning
> inhaled steroids in treatment of asthma. What I'm trying to get some
> information on is the way in which the statistical methods used in
> meta-analysis have come into existence and widespread use. These
> include the current methods for weighting and pooling data in fixed
> and random effect models for continuous and binary data, and the tests
> for heterogeneity. I've tried to make some headway with these issues
> already, have done a bit of reading form some of the reviews papers I
> have come across, and have tried to read Hedges and Olkin's book on
> the issues but found it tough going. However most of these various
> articles don't really give any details as to how the various methods
> have developed, or what the precedent for using one approach over
> another necessarily is. I realise this sort of question is probably
> very difficult to answer, but I was wondering if you might be able to
> point me in the right direction.
>
>
> Dr Nick Adams
> Clinical Research Fellow
> Cochrane Airways Group
> Dept Physiological Medicine
> St Georges Hospital Medical School
> Tooting London SW17 ORE
> UK
> +44 181 725 5383
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