I have a surgical colleague who has just completed a systemmatic review of
diagnostic studies on staging of rectal cancer. He has calculated a whole
list of likelihood ratios - interesting not one of the studies presented
the findings using likelihood ratios. My question - is there a statistical
method for combining LRs from different studies as there is for combining
ORs or RRs from RCTs?
Rod Jackson
Dr Rodney Jackson MBChB PhD FAFPHM
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Head of Department
Dpt of Community Health, School of Medicine
University of Auckland
(Grafton Mews, 52-54 Grafton Rd)
Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
Phone: +64 (0)9-3737599 ext 6343
Fax: +64 (0)9-3737503
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