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Making sense of effect size in meta-analysis based for medical research – Pubrica

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  1. MAKINGSENSEOFEFFECT SIZEINMETA-ANALYSIS BASED FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AnAcademicpresentationby Dr.NancyAgnes,Head,TechnicalOperations,Pubrica Group: www.pubrica.com Email:sales@pubrica.com

  2. Today'sDiscussion Outline Introduction Significance of Effect Size EffectSizeinMeta-Analysis FormulationforEffectSize StandardizedMeansDifference Cohen'sDEffectSize Fixed Effects Model RandomEffectsModel FutureScopes

  3. Introduction Effectsizeisastatisticalideathathelpsmeasure the strength and connection between two variables ona numericscale. It simply refers to the size and the difference found betweenthe twogroups. It's simple to compute, understand, and apply to any educational or social science outcome that can be quantified. Contd...

  4. It's especially useful for calculating the efficiency of a certain intervention concerning otherinterventions. It is useful for calculating the efficiency of a certain intervention in relation to other interventions. Itenablesustolookfurtherfromthesimple'Doesitfunctionornot?'questionto "How well does it work in a variety of contexts?" and significantly more complex, by focusingon themost crucial featureof an intervention. Ratherthanitsstatisticalsignificance,itpromotesadifferentscientificapproachto theaccumulation of knowledge. Contd...

  5. For these reasons, the effect size is considered an effective tool in reporting and interpretingeffectiveness. For example, if we have data on the weight of men and women and notice that, on average, men have more weight than women, women's weight is known as the effectsize. Statisticaleffectsizehelpsusdecidewhetherthedifferenceisgenuineora differencein factors. Contd...

  6. Significance ofEffectSize Formulaeforevaluatingtheeffectsizesdonotoften foundinmanystatisticstextbooks(otherthanthose devoted to meta-analysis), are not included in various statistics computer packages and are occasionally taught instandardresearchapproaches courses. Fortheseabove-statedreasons,eventheresearcher who found interest in using measures of effect size is afraid to use them in conventional practice and find it quitehardto knowexactly howto doit.

  7. EffectSize in Meta- Analysis InMeta-analysis, theeffectsizeisconcernedabout variousstudiesandafterwardsjoinsallthestudiesinto asingle analysis. Instatisticalanalysis,theeffectsizeistypically estimatedin threeways: Thestandardizedmeandifference, Oddratio, Correlationcoefficient. Contd...

  8. Formulation forEffectSize Karl Pearson created Pearson r correlation, anditismostbroadlyutilizedinstatistics. Thisparameterofeffectsizeissignifiedbyr. TheestimationoftheeffectsizeofPearsonr connectionshiftsbetween-1to+1. Contd...

  9. Contd...

  10. Where r=correlationcoefficient N=numberofpairsofscores ∑XY=sumoftheproductsofpairedscores ∑x=sumofxscores ∑y=sumofyscores ∑x2=sumofsquaredxscores ∑y2=sumofsquaredyscores

  11. Standardized Means Difference When a research study depends on the population mean and standard deviation, at that point, the accompanying techniqueisutilizedto knowtheeffect size:

  12. Cohen's D EffectSize Cohen's d is known as the distinction of two population means,andthestandarddeviationseparatesitfrom thedata. MathematicallyCohen'seffectsizeissignifiedby: Contd...

  13. Wherescanbecalculatedbyusingthefollowingformula: Contd...

  14. Hedges'gmethodofeffectsize:ThisisthemodifiedformofCohen'sdmethod.We canwrite Hedges' gmethod of effectsize as follows:

  15. FixedEffects Model Thefixed-effectmodelgivesaweightedaverageof aprogressionof studyestimates. Theoppositeoftheappraisals'differenceisusually utilizedas studyweight. Moreextensivestudieswilloffermorethansmaller studiestothe weightedaverage. Contd...

  16. Thus,whenconcentratesinsideameta-analysisareoverwhelmedbyanextensive study,thediscoveries fromsmaller studiesarepractically ignored. This assumption is ordinarily unrealistic as an examination is frequently inclined to several heterogeneity sources; for example, treatment impacts may contrast as indicatedbyregion, measurementslevels, andstudy conditions.

  17. Random EffectsModel A typical model used to synthesize heterogeneous studyistheirregularimpactsmodelofmeta-analysis. This is the weighted average of the effect sizes of a gatheringof studies. Theweightthatisappliedinthisinteractionof weighted averaging with an arbitrary impacts meta- investigationisaccomplishedintwostages: Contd...

  18. Step1:Inversevarianceweighting. Step 2: Un-weighting of inverse variance weighting by REVC (Random Effects VarianceComponent).

  19. Future Scopes The more significant variability in effect size e (also called heterogeneity)isthemoreprominentinun-weighting. This can conclude that the arbitrary impacts meta-analysis resultturnsouttobejusttheun-weightedaverageeffect sizeacross the studies. At the other limit, when all effect sizes are comparable (or inconstancydoesn'tsurpasstestingerror),noREVCis applied,andtheirregularimpactsmeta-examinationdefaults tojustafixedimpactmeta-investigation(justopposite varianceweighting).

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