Statistical methods for meta-analyses including information from studies without any events-add nothing to nothing and succeed nevertheless

Meta-analysis for diagnostic accuracy studies: a new statistical model using beta-binomial distributions and bivariate copulas

(2013) Oliver Kuss et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Predicting the extent of heterogeneity in meta-analysis, using empirical data from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

(2012) Rebecca M Turner et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Characteristics of recent biostatistical methods adopted by researchers publishing in general/internal medicine journals

(2012) Paul J. Nietert et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program

(2011) Rongwei Fu et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Pitfalls in meta-analyses on adverse events reported from clinical trials

(2011) Han-Yao Huang et al.   PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY

Simpson’s Paradox From Adding Constants in Contingency Tables as an Example of Bayesian Noncollapsibility

(2010) Sander Greenland   AMERICAN STATISTICIAN

Meta-analysis for rare events

(2010) Tianxi Cai et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Random effects meta-analysis of event outcome in the framework of the generalized linear mixed model with applications in sparse data

(2010) Theo Stijnen et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Robustness Assessments Are Needed to Reduce Bias in Meta-Analyses That Include Zero-Event Randomized Trials

(2009) F Keus et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Zero-total event trials and incomplete pyloromyotomy

(2009) Simon Eaton et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY

Fully specified bootstrap confidence intervals for the difference of two independent binomial proportions based on the median unbiased estimator

(2009) Yan Lin et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Exact and efficient inference procedure for meta-analysis and its application to the analysis of independent 2 x 2 tables with all available data but without artificial continuity correction

(2008) L. Tian et al.   BIOSTATISTICS

Meta-analyses with rare events should use adequate methods

(2008) Oliver Kuss et al.   JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Meta-analyses of safety data: a comparison of exact versus asymptotic methods

(2008) Ben Vandermeer et al.   STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH

Why add anything to nothing? The arcsine difference as a measure of treatment effect in meta-analysis with zero cells

(2008) Gerta Rücker et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE