Graphical displays for meta‐analysis: An overview with suggestions for practice

Research Synthesis Methods - Tập 1 Số 1 - Trang 66-80 - 2010
Judith Anzures‐Cabrera1, Julian P. T. Higgins2
1Roche Products Ltd, Welwyn Garden City, U.K.
2MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge U.K.

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Abstract

Meta‐analyses are fundamental tools for collating and synthesizing large amounts of information, and graphical displays have become the principal tool for presenting the results of multiple studies of the same research question. We review standard and proposed graphical displays for presentation of meta‐analytic data, and offer our recommendations on how they might be presented to provide the most useful and user‐friendly illustrations. We concentrate on graphs that specifically aim to present similar sorts of univariate results from multiple studies. We start with forest plots and funnel plots, and proceed to Galbraith (or radial) plots, L'Abbé (and related) plots, further plots useful for investigating heterogeneity, plots useful for model diagnostics and plots for illustrating likelihoods and Bayesian meta‐analyses. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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