A non-iterative extension of the multivariate random effects meta-analysis.
Makambi Kepher H, Seung Hyunuk·Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics
Multivariate methods in meta-analysis are becoming popular and more accepted in biomedical research despite computational issues in some of the techniques. A number of approaches, both iterative and non-iterative, have been proposed including the multivariate DerSimonian and Laird method by Jackson et al. (2010), which…