2nd Edition

Applied Meta-Analysis with R and Stata

By Ding-Geng (Din) Chen, Karl E. Peace Copyright 2021
456 Pages 63 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

456 Pages 63 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

456 Pages 63 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Review of the First Edition: The authors strive to reduce theory to a minimum, which makes it a self-learning text that is comprehensible for biologists, physicians, etc. who lack an advanced mathematics background. Unlike in many other textbooks, R is not introduced with meaningless toy examples; instead the reader is taken by the hand and shown around some analyses, graphics, and... Read more
1. Introduction to R and Stata for Meta-Analysis
2. Research Protocol for Meta-Analyses
3. Fixed-E ects and Random-E ects in Meta-Analysis
4. Meta-Analysis with Binary Data
5. Meta-Analysis for Continuous Data
6. Heterogeneity in Meta-Analysis
7. Meta-Regression
8. Multivariate Meta-Analysis
9. Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis
Hani Samawi
10. Strategies to Handle Missing Data in Meta-Analysis
Haresh Rochani and Mario Keko
11. Meta-Analysis for Evaluating Diagnostic Accuracy
Jingjing Yin and Jing Kersey
12. Network Meta-Analysis
Lili Yu and Xinyan Zhang
13. Meta-Analysis for Rare Events
14. Meta-Analyses with Individual Patient-Level Data versus Summary Statistics
15. Other R/Stata Packages for Meta-Analysis

Biography

Ding-Geng (Din) Chen is a fellow of American Statistical Association and currently the Wallace H. Kuralt Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. Formerly, he was a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Rochester, New York, USA, the Karl E. Peace Endowed Eminent Scholar Chair and professor in Biostatistics in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University, USA, and a professor of statistics at South Dakota Stata University, USA. Dr. Chen’s research interests include clinical trial biostatistical methodological development in Bayesian models, survival analysis, multi-level modelling and longitudinal data analysis, and statistical meta-analysis. He has published more than 200 refereed papers and co-authored/co-edited 30 book in statistics.

Karl E. Peace is the Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, Founding Director of the Center for Biostatistics, Professor of Biostatistics, and Senior Research Scientist in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University (GSU). Dr. Peace has made pivotal contributions in the development and approval of drugs to treat numerous diseases and disorders. A fellow of the ASA, he has been a recipient of many honors, including the Drug Information Association Outstanding Service Award, the American Public Health Association Statistics Section Award, The First recipient of the President’s Medal for outstanding contributions to GSU, and recognition by the Georgia and US Houses of Representatives, and the Virginia House of Delegates.

"The strengths of the second edition continue those of the first edition... A summary and discussion close the chapters, providing professionally generous recommendations for additional reading, software, and websites. Clearly, an applied hands-on approach intended to facilitate quickly moving readers to performing informed meta-data analyses."
- Thomas E. Bradstreet, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, July 2022