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SUBMITTER: Musekiwa A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5087886 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Musekiwa Alfred A Manda Samuel O M SO Mwambi Henry G HG Chen Ding-Geng DG
PloS one 20161031 10
Meta-analysis of longitudinal studies combines effect sizes measured at pre-determined time points. The most common approach involves performing separate univariate meta-analyses at individual time points. This simplistic approach ignores dependence between longitudinal effect sizes, which might result in less precise parameter estimates. In this paper, we show how to conduct a meta-analysis of longitudinal effect sizes where we contrast different covariance structures for dependence between eff ...[more]