A hierarchical non-homogenous Poisson model for meta-analysis of adenoma counts.
Rutter Carolyn M, Yu Onchee, Miglioretti Diana L·Statistics in medicine
We use a hierarchical model for a meta-analysis that combines information from autopsy studies of adenoma prevalence and counts. The studies we included reported findings using a variety of adenoma prevalence groupings and age categories. We use a non-homogeneous Poisson model for multinomial bin probabilities. The Poi…