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Statistical Primer: Heterogeneity, Random- or Fixed-Effects Model Analyses?

Thursday, July 26, 2018

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Source Name: Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

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Fabio Barili, Alessandro Parolari, Pieter A Kappetein, Nick Freemantle

Barili and colleagues discuss the importance of identifying heterogeneity in meta-analyses and the use of a random-effects or fixed-effects model to account for differences between or within studies. The authors review the assumptions and components of these models, discussing appropriate applications for each of them. Finally, they use an example analysis of surgical and transcatheter valve replacement outcomes to demonstrate the differences between random-effects and fixed-effects models.

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